Our Mission:
Livingston Classical Academy in Whitmore Lake exists as a tuition-free public school to educate youth on our nation’s founding principles and empowers them, as free citizens, to pursue a virtuous life of happiness and excellence.
Our Vision:
Livingston Classical Academy trains the minds and nurtures the hearts of young people through a rigorous classical, content-rich education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue.
Our Virtues:
Courage
LCA students will strive to embody the quality of mind which enables humans to encounter danger and difficulty with valor, boldness, and resolution.
Perseverance
LCA students will practice persistence in whatever they undertake. They will not give in to despair but rather, with diligence and determination, they will forego immediate gratification in order to pursue true human flourishing.
Courtesy
LCA students will recognize that all human beings are worthy of dignity and respect. Therefore, they will practice elegant politeness of manners and kindness toward their fellowman.
Honesty
LCA students will seek to know the truth through their studies, and to speak the truth with prudence at all times, in every relationship. LCA students will seek to avoid speaking falsehoods or to knowingly deceive others by hiding the truth.
Service
LCA students will pursue happiness by offering their time and talents for the good of other individuals and their community even when this action entails personal sacrifice.
Self-Government
LCA students will foster the habits of mind and memory that allow them to increase in knowledge, the habits of body that allow them to act appropriately at all times, and the habits of speech that allow them to speak articulately in any context.
Friendship
LCA Students are kind and generous and learn how to get along well with others.