Upper School Profile 2024–2025

Mission

The Geneva School seeks to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy, and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of a divinely ordered whole. Further, Geneva seeks to instill in students a desire to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling.

Accreditation & Membership

The Geneva School is accredited by the Florida Council of Independent Schools, is a charter member of The Association of Classical & Christian Schools, and is also a member of the Society for Classical Learning.

School & Community

The Geneva School, established in 1993, is a coeducational, college-preparatory day school with a K4–12 student body of 712 (277 in 7th–12th). The school campus is located in Casselberry, in suburban Orlando.

Faculty

The Geneva School seeks master teachers who have a passion for learning and who have advanced academic credentials and experience. Of the 45 faculty serving the upper school, 42 are degreed and 3 are professionals in their field (photography, music performance, and AV arts/stagecraft) with many years of experience, 26 have earned one or more master’s degrees, 1 has an education specialist degree, 4 have earned their doctorate, and 1 is pursuing a doctor of ministry degree.

Admission

Admission to The Geneva School is selective. The admission committee’s evaluation of each applicant is based on academic records, teacher recommendations, standardized test scores, pre-admission assessments, and student interviews. The Geneva School admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.

Rhetoric (with Capstone Thesis)

Rhetoric is the art of leading souls with words, and it requires the ability to see the available means of persuasion in any given situation. In a four-year sequence of classes, Geneva students pursue this art through study of classical and contemporary speeches and arguments of all kinds, as well as through their own public speaking, in and out of the classroom. As they grow in the skills and habits of reasoning well and speaking well, they are encouraged to use their words in ways that lead to human flourishing and that are faithful to scripture and the historic Christian tradition.

The culmination of the students’ rhetorical education is the senior thesis project, in which each senior composes an extensive, carefully researched argument on a topic of contemporary significance. After working through a number of drafts of their paper with the help of a faculty advisor, the student delivers it orally in the form of a classical oration and defends it before faculty, peers, and community.

Portrait of a Graduate

It is our aspiration that graduates of The Geneva School exhibit the following personal and intellectual capacities:

• Embodies practical wisdom: Students should demonstrate a life well lived, consonant with the expectations of a biblical ethic, the integration of theory and practice, and the maturity gained from The Great Conversation and from the personal mentoring of faculty and staff.
• Engages in integrative and collaborative learning: Assuming a unified field of knowledge that integrates in the person of Christ, students will synthesize a cohesive world-and-life view across the liberal arts curriculum and through exchanges with a collegial faculty.
• Employs skill in truthful communication: Through the grammatical arts of dialectic and rhetoric, students will become skillful in discerning and disseminating truth through the variety of media that is at their disposal.
• Exhibits the love of neighbor and a concern for the common good: Servant leadership orients a compassionate heart to pursue others’ good even before one’s own.
• Pursues his/her calling under the intention that all of life might be redeemed: As an ambassador of Christ in this world, students will pursue their vocation with the hope that they will be a reconciling agent for the gospel in all relationships and circumstances.