College Preparation

The Trinity Academy Difference

Your child will be ready for their future choices.

In a sometimes competitive climate, within an ever-changing culture, preparing our children for college can be challenging. Unfortunately, a child’s education can all too often be reduced to performing a set of fixed requirements.

At Trinity Academy, time and energy is rather dedicated to fostering an active love of learning, intentional collaboration, and thoughtful problem-solving. Throughout their time with Trinity Academy, students are infused with the skills necessary to constructively participate in difficult conversations around nuanced concepts and relationships. At the same time, our robust curriculum and dynamic culture accustoms students to the rigors of college life as well as equipping them to comfortably meet the standards of university level work.

Although Trinity Academy prioritizes developing students for a lifetime of learning, our students are also poised to do well on the national systems of testing and benchmarks, many times outpacing their peers.

 

Methodology

The educational method of Trinity Academy is designed to encourage the active involvement of the student in the learning process. Rather than receiving knowledge passively, each student must actively apprehend concepts and relationships. Most classes are oriented toward participation and perfor- mance. For example, students read, discuss, and write in humanities seminars, they solve problems individually and in groups in mathematics and science courses, they do experiments in science labs, they perform in music and drama classes, and they produce paintings and drawings in art classes.

Schools that Have Accepted our Graduates

  • Benedictine College

  • Butler University

  • Calvin University

  • Carnegie Mellon University

  • The Catholic University of America

  • College of Saint Benedict

  • Colorado School of Mines

  • Denison

  • University Drexell University

  • Georgia Tech

  • Georgetown University

  • Gonzaga University

  • Holy Cross College

  • Howard University

  • Kenyon College

  • Lewis and Clark College

  • Loyola Marymount University

  • Oregon State University

  • Pepperdine University

  • Purdue University

  • Reed College

  • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • St. Mary’s College of California

  • Santa Clara University

  • Seton Hall University

  • University of Dallas

  • The University of Notre Dame

  • University of Oregon

  • University of Portland

  • Westmont College

  • Wheaton College

  • Whitman College

Ms. Wegener, the senior humane letters teacher, spent some weeks before graduation interviewing each senior to hear their reflections on their years at Trinity and find out their plans for the future. She has written up their conversations, and we present them to you as a “Portrait of a Senior.” Please enjoy these vignettes, featuring our class of 2024 in three installments: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Qualified Full-Time Faculty

Trinity Academy is composed of 13 full-time faculty members and 6 part-time faculty members. The majority of full-time faculty ensures that our students receive quality instruction and ready access to excellent resources from highly qualified individuals. Below are the current percentages of degrees our faculty hold:

  • 26% Ph.D.s

  • 36% Master’s

  • 38% Bachelor’s

If you have questions regarding college preparation at Trinity Academy, please email our Director of College Guidance Mrs. Jane Olson.

History and Associations

Trinity Academy first opened its doors with five students in the fall of 2011 and has grown to 120 students this year. In 2015 we graduated our first class of seniors. 94% of our graduates have matriculated at four-year universities.

Trinity Academy has an ongoing collaboration with the highly successful Trinity Schools network. The Trinity Schools in Indiana, Minnesota and Virginia have won nine national Blue Ribbon Awards among them, and their curriculum has been successfully implemented at other charter and private schools across the country. Trinity Academy employs the Trinity Schools curriculum, receives ongoing faculty training by master teachers from Trinity Schools, and participates in on-site Trinity School trainings (trinityschools.org).