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Welcome From Our Headmaster
A Philosophy Rooted in Tradition
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about." — G.K. Chesterton
Family is Fundamental
Parental Responsibility for Education
Liberty Common School honors “The Universal Truth” of education – it is the right and responsibility of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children. This responsibility begins when families choose the school, its educational philosophy, and its corresponding academic strategies. Parents lead in ensuring fidelity to the school’s tradition and philosophy by staying informed, volunteering, and reinforcing aligned educational goals at home.
Classical, Proven, and Timeless
Intellectual and Moral Excellence
Liberty’s academic objectives pursue the direct acquisition of knowledge. The school’s classically oriented, liberal-arts emphasis aims to provide students deep and broad intellectual orientation toward the good, the true, the beautiful, and the perfect. The curriculum strives to equip young scholars with the skills to become thoughtful, moral, and engaged leaders in the American Republic. Liberty’s fidelity to these enduring principles produces consistent, remarkable results.
Virtue Education
Character for Lifelong Citizenship
Virtue education is essential in the complete development and formation of young scholars at Liberty Common School. Liberty invests thirteen years of intentional character education in its students—reinforced through classical literature, case studies, biographies, and through a direct emphasis on the cardinal virtues. This classical tradition encourages young citizens to act with integrity, empowering them to make prudent decisions based on ethical principles and authentic wisdom.
True Professional Educators
Excellence in the Classroom
Liberty Common’s team of professional classroom instructors is widely regarded as among the nation’s best. Instructors are professionals with high-level subject-matter expertise and philosophical alignment. Members of the faculty are caring and supportive educators committed to providing the very best educational experience for each individual child. Professional classroom instructors are carefully selected from fields of nationwide applicants. The benefit for students is stunning.
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Three Campuses
Liberty Common School consists of three campuses in Fort Collins, Colorado. Two elementary-school campuses serve grades K–6 and one combined junior-high and high-school campus serving grades 7–12. Explore this section to learn more about our campuses.
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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
― Plato
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."
― Socrates
Campuses Locations
Elementary - Aristotle Campus
Grades K-6, Southwest Fort Collins
Elementary - Plato Campus
Grades K-6, Northeast Fort Collins
Junior High
Grades 7-8, East Fort Collins
High School
9th-12th Grade, East Fort Collins
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Explore Our Opportunities
Discover the core curriculum at Liberty Common School. It is supplemented by a wealth of enriching programs designed to nurture personal development and empower students for future success.
K-12
Grades Offered
1
Unique Order and House System
23
Sports Offered Grades 6-12
600+
Student-Athletes
40
Student Clubs and Co-curriculars
19
Classes Offered In The Arts
3
Campuses
1475
Students
28
Years of Excellence
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News & Events
Featured News
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Parent Education
Dr. Mindy Story, Board of Directors
There are multiple ways Liberty offers support to parents to explore the understanding of classical education and school philosophies. When parents understand these concepts themselves, they are appropriately armed to defend these beliefs in their households and in their community.
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Lincolnshire Posy
Brett Harkey, Director of Advancement
The composer Percy Grainger was born in Australia in 1882. He was educated in Germany and began his career as a pianist, composer, inventor, and pioneering ethnomusicologist in Great Britain before settling in the United States in 1914 to live out the rest of his life.
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Four Fulgent Footprints
Bob Schaffer, Headmaster
Liberty Common students have doubled their footprints about the town. Yesterday, the school’s Board of Directors and its Building Corporation officially added two big properties to the previous two.
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If
Elizabeth Barber, Board of Directors
Over the last few months, Liberty’s Board of Directors has been increasingly focused on the transitional junior-high years of 7th and 8th grades. We’ve previously announced facility plans and corresponding financing and fundraising efforts of the expansion, but every facet of the new campus is being carefully weighed and measured by a devoted and competent team of school professionals and parent volunteers.
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If-Then, What?
Kallie Cooper, Communications Specialist
If you are unfamiliar with the phrase like I was, formal logic is like math for arguments. Developed by Aristotle, it is a way of making sure how we argue or reason is structured in a way that makes sense.
