Chesterton Academy

Chesterton Academy
Address
5300 France Avenue South
Edina, (Hennepin County), Minnesota 55410
United States
Coordinates 44°54′25″N 93°19′46″W / 44.90694°N 93.32944°W / 44.90694; -93.32944Coordinates: 44°54′25″N 93°19′46″W / 44.90694°N 93.32944°W / 44.90694; -93.32944
Information
Type Private, Coeducational
Motto Cultura vitae
(The culture of life)
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established 2008
CEEB code 240-262
Headmaster David Beskar
Faculty 15
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 125 (2015)
Student to teacher ratio 8:1
Color(s) Navy Blue and Gold
        
Website www.chestertonacademy.org

Chesterton Academy is a private, co-ed, Catholic secondary school in Edina, Minnesota, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

Launched in the fall of 2008 by Dale Ahlquist and Tom Bengtson, the school is centered on G. K. Chesterton’s ideas of integrated learning. It offers summer school programs, options for home-schooled students, and adult enrichment classes.[1]

Chesterton Academy has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 Catholic High Schools for excellence in Catholic identity, academics and civics education" by the Cardinal Newman Society.[2]

Beginning in the 2012–13 school year, Chesterton Academy moved from its former St. Louis Park location into the premises of Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Edina.[3]

Chesterton Academy has several campuses around the United States. Besides Edina, there is one in Saint Paul,[4] Omaha, Chicago, and Buffalo, New York. [5] There is also a campus in Italy, whose students have sometimes visited the Edina campus. Chesterton Academy also sometimes receives foreign exchange students.

The Edina campus (if not other campuses as well) has influence from Traditionalist Catholics, as evidenced by all-male altar servers wearing cassocks, usually around 12 altar servers during Mass, and a significant portion of Friday Mass being said in Latin.

References

  1. ↑ About | Chesterton Academy
  2. ↑ Nation’s Top 50 Catholic High Schools Announced Archived October 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Private school moving to Edina, Sun Current, May 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Chesterton Academy students begin studies at new St. Paul campus - TheCatholicSpirit.com". TheCatholicSpirit.com. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. ↑ "Home". Chesterton Academy of Buffalo. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
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