Thomas MacLaren School
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- School district
- Colorado Springs 11
- Authorizer
- Colorado Charter School Institute (CSI)
About Thomas MacLaren School
The vision of this newly chartered, sixth-through-twelfth grade public school is that all human beings, and thus all students, can know truth, create beauty, and practice goodness. MacLaren emphasizes learning as a lifelong posture toward the world; a posture that is developed in the classroom through Socratic seminars and the practice of learning as doing. The school is named after an acclaimed local architect, who moved to Colorado Springs in the 1890s to take in its famously curative air and 300 annual days of sunshine; the elegant and abiding buildings that he left the city are emblematic of the kind of integrated learning that students at MacLaren will strive after as they are immersed in a classical liberal education.
- School grade level
- K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Educational program category
- Classical
- Student enrollment
- 965
- Year school opened
- 2009-2010