June 10, 2025
Welcome, Grace Hambleton!
We are excited to announce that Grace Hambleton has been selected as a 2025–2026 School Leadership Fellow through the Hillsdale College K-12...
Recently, Ivywood’s fifth graders concluded studying the Reformation, in History. As part of their study, the students did a reenactment of Galileo’s trial from 1633, where his world of humanism collided with the absolute power of the Catholic Church. The fifth graders learned that up until the work of Copernicus and Galileo, people had accepted the Ptolemaic system, which said that the Earth was stationary and at the center of the universe. The Ptolemaic system fit well with the teaching of the Catholic Church that the heavens were perfect and unchanging. The fifth grade class divided into two teams that made arguments for and against Galileo regarding his belief that the sun was at the center of the universe and that the Earth, the other planets, and the stars moved around it. This time, Galileo and his belief that the Earth revolves around the sun prevailed.
Ivywood Classical Academy is a tuition-free public school academy that will educate students using the virtues-based, content-rich, classical education tradition.
Parents may start dropping students off at 7:50 am. Doors open at 8:00 am, and there are three drop off options:
Option 1: Drop off at 7:50, a staff member will supervise students outside of the building until the door open.
Option 2: Park and walk to the entrance from 8:00 - 8:10. Parents may escort their children to the front or side doors.
Option 3: Utilize the car loop from 7:50 - 8:09
Ivywood utilizes a staggered dismissal. All parents must park and enter through the main entrance. All designated pick-up people must present their ICA identification barcode which will be scanned by an ICA employee prior to gaining entrance to the building. Students are dismissed directly from classrooms.