Lexington Families Guide 2022

Trinity Triumphs

Faith, Scholarship, Virtue, and Community

Growth and expansion are the

order of the day at Lexington’s

Trinity Christian Academy, which prides itself on “core values of faith, scholarship, virtue, and community.”

When the enrollment in the lower grades at the private day school began to surge in recent years, staff and leadership realized that the upper grades would soon be bursting with students — and that they “would outgrow the current facilities (and soon).”

They began the search in the Lexington area for land that could be home to the new campus and discovered the perfect spot when they found 45 acres of land on East Brannon Road. It was there that they encountered the first challenge: purchasing the land. As a non-profit organization, the school had to depend on the generous donations of people from the Trinity and Lexington community to help bring the vision to life.

Through the generous donations of the Cowen Family, they were able to purchase the land that they needed, debt-free.

Since then, the Trinity team has been busy “developing what the new campus will look like to best serve our students and the kingdom of God.”

More than three decades ago, a handful of members of Tates Creek Presbyterian Church (TCPC) had a vision to open a school for their children that provided an alternative, more rigorous curriculum than what was being presented to them through the public school system.

These visionaries would open Tates Creek Academy (now Trinity Christian Academy) one year later in August of 1988 with a faculty of two, and 31 enrolled students. The school continued to grow year by year, adding a new grade each fall until the first graduating class was produced in 2000.

For the last 35 years, “God has blessed the founders’ dreams by making Trinity Christian Academy one of the strongest classical schools in the state. Trinity has graduated hundreds of students who have gone on to do great things for the glory of Christ and the good of the Bluegrass.”

Maintaining a low student-toteacher ratio has been key, allowing

“Many of our alumni stay in contact with their teachers for years, resulting in life-long friendships.”

Peter Hansen, Head of School

students “to have more undivided attention from their teachers, which not only allows them to be more successful academically, but more importantly, as a person. Especially in high school, our teachers don’t just teach, they disciple and mentor their students. As a result, many of our alumni stay in contact with their teachers for years, resulting in lifelong friendships with older, wiser, experienced people of faith all because of the time and energy their teachers were able to pour into them.”

For parents who may not be familiar with an academic focus on classical education, staff explain, “At Trinity, we believe classical Christian education

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