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Lake Park School District

Dedicated To Excellence In Education

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Nationally Recognized Excellence: 
A Core Knowledge® Leadership School and Arizona’s Only Hillsdale Curriculum School

 

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CONSISTENTLY RANKED IN THE TOP 1% OF ARIZONA SCHOOLS SINCE INCEPTION

 

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RATED A & EXCELLING SINCE INCEPTION

Arizona Department of Education

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Our mission is to grow wisdom and virtue for a life well lived through rigorous knowledge-based schooling in the classical liberal arts.

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The Most Important Work of Education Happens in the K-8 Years

These are the years children learn to read, how to think, how to work, and how to engage with the world around them. Our goal is not simply to produce strong students, but to help form thoughtful, capable human beings.

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How Learning Works at Candeo

Strong Foundations in Literacy

Systematic instruction in reading, writing, spelling, and language helps students become confident, fluent readers.

Knowledge Builds Understanding

A coherent, knowledge-rich curriculum in history, science, literature, geography, and the arts builds deep understanding.

Great Works & Enduring Ideas

Students encounter great literature, primary sources, and the pivotal events that have shaped human civilization.

Form­ation of Character

Through stories, study, and example, students grow in virtue, responsibility, respect, courage, and a sense of purpose.

The Classical Tradition

GRAMMAR · LOGIC · RHETORIC
KNOW · THINK · COMMUNICATE

Grounded in classical thought and the Trivium, students learn to master language, think clearly and analytically, and communicate with precision and eloquence in speech and writing.

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ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE

Build a rich foundation of facts and ideas

 

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THINK LOGICALLY

Reason carefully, analyze deeply

 

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COMMUNICATE CLEARLY

Speak and write with precision and confidence

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A Strong School is Built on Quality at Every Level 

QUALITY CURRICULUM
QUALITY INSTRUCTION
QUALITY LEADERSHIP

Together, these create the conditions for students to flourish
and for exceptional teachers to deepen their craft.
 

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Life at Candeo

RICH SCHOOL LIFE · GROUNDED IN PURPOSE

From joyful classrooms to time-honored traditions, life at Candeo is rich, meaningful, and full of purpose.

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The Candeo Journey

TRUTH · GOODNESS · BEAUTY

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Kindergarten

Students learn to read and write while building strong foundations in Singapore Math and discovering the world through history and civics, science, literature, French, art, and music.
 

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Lower School

Students strengthen reading, writing, and mathematical fluency while building cumulative knowledge in history, geography, science, classic literature, French, and the fine arts.
 

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Upper School

Students reason deeply and express ideas clearly through increasingly complex literature, history, mathematics, and science, alongside composition and rhetoric, Latin, and logic.
 

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Discover a school shaped by order, wonder, and purpose.

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