Thomas MacLaren School is an award-winning K-12th grade charter public school. We expect each student to master history, mathematics, science, literature, Latin and English, as well as to gain familiarity with at least one other language and fine arts.
Speaking about the Humane Letters class, ""We also wished we could have had such a class when we were that age. What an exciting way to present this material." -Bridget Mosley (Parent)
"I will definitely miss the amazing, talented, and caring faculty. They're teaching you as they're learning, too. They know how to lead you to loving what you're learning." - Brenna Kullhem (12th grade)
"Uniforms are great because you can see a person for who they are, not what they wear." - Maricela Mendez (12th grade)
Our Vision
We believe all students should be immersed in the best our tradition has to offer. We believe all students can be active and useful participants in the ongoing and enduring conversation that is a vibrant civilization. We believe all students can be formed in a habitual vision of greatness that makes lifelong learners of the doctor and the mechanic, the homemaker and the professor. Thomas MacLaren School strives to build a lasting community of learners in which each student is the agent of his or her education.
Our Mission
From the seminar to the science lab, from the music room to the playing field, we begin with the conviction that all human beings can know truth, create beauty and practice goodness. To that end, we expect students to develop basic tools of learning, ordered basic knowledge, moral seriousness, breadth and depth of imagination, artistic ability and sensitivity, and a sense of wonder.
We believe all students can be active and useful participants in the ongoing and enduring conversation that is a vibrant civilization. Jacques Maritain, the French philosopher, described education as a human awakening. The goal of Thomas MacLaren School is to develop young men and women who are fully human and fully awake to the world.
Thomas MacLaren School was founded in 2008, by a small group of parents who live in Colorado Springs District 11. These parents wanted a choice for classical education without having to wait on the lists of other schools in surrounding districts. Thomas MacLaren School opened its doors in the fall of 2009. From our humble beginnings renting space in a local church for 77 6th-9th grade students, we are now in our fourth year on our own campus which accommodates the 2018 expansion of our school from 6-12 to K-12. Our student body numbers close to 910 students this year. Over the past ten years, MacLaren has racked up impressive awards (School of Distinction, John Irwin Award of Excellence, High School Growth Award) and test scores (Class of 2017 state record-breaking ACT composite average of 29.8) while daily undertaking the task of developing young men and women who are fully human and fully awake to the world. We expect each student to master history, mathematics, science, literature, Latin and English, as well as to gain familiarity with at least one other language and fine arts. Our Lower School (K-5) curriculum, full of rigor and wonder, prepares younger students to be able to plumb the depths of the Upper School (6-12) curriculum eagerly and confidently.
Organization name
Thomas MacLaren State Charter School
other names
Thomas MacLaren School
2007
Tax id (EIN)
26-0505334
Category
Education
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
1702 N Murray BoulevardEl Paso County, CO, US