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Academics & School Profile

  • We intentionally create small class sizes so that we can achieve our goals of educating our students well and forming them through the relationship between the student and the teacher and between the teacher and the parent. In our K4 program, we welcome 12 students to each class. This number increases to 16 students in kindergarten through 2nd grade and then to 18 from 3rd grade and up.

  • Students graduate from Geneva with a minimum of four rhetoric school (or high school equivalent) credits each in English, history, rhetoric, and math; three in science and foreign language; two in the arts; and one in athletics. Most students take more than the minimum credits required. 

    In order to graduate from The Geneva School, a student must have at least a C average (70% or higher). Geneva does not rank its students but does recognize a valedictorian and a salutatorian. Given the high value we place on academics and the ability of our students, most courses are taught at an honors, AP, or dual-credit level. For more information, see our UPPER SCHOOL PROFILE.

  • Geneva’s mission of providing a Christian classical education is achieved through academics, the arts, and athletics. While the typical school day allows for a considerable level of activity in each, we find that by extending activities to after school, we can provide so much more. 

    These cocurricular activities include those offered to grammar school (K4–6th grade) students: Garden Club, Art Adventures, a variety of youth sports each quarter, Giocoso Music, Percussio Orff Ensemble, Brioso Children’s Choir, Orchestra Ensembles, Cheer Club, Stitch Lab, Typing Class, and Pep Club. 

    Activities offered to dialectic and rhetoric school (7th–12th grade) students include 20 varsity sports, over 20 middle school and JV teams, Merely Players Drama Troupe, Strategy and Board Games Club, Pep Club, Typing Class, Orchestra Ensemble, Student Senate, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Student Astronaut Challenge, Biblical Justice Club, Writers Guild, Imago Dei Club, Women of Faith, Spanish Club, and National Honor Society.

  • Students with learning differences that do not require significant accommodations find that they can be successful at Geneva. The school employs two learning specialists and a reading specialist and incorporates a Motor Lab for K4–2nd grade students. Grammar school teachers have been trained in the Orton-Gillingham method, and all teachers participate in professional development learning how best to meet the needs of their students. The school also has a support team prepared to work alongside students and families on their educational journey.

  • Each year, our seniors are accepted to a broad range of schools, including some very prestigious colleges and universities. See the UPPER SCHOOL PROFILE for a complete list. Our graduates regularly report to us that they are not only well prepared for college, they are often well ahead of their peers due to the skills they acquire at Geneva, especially in close reading, public speaking, writing, and intellectual discourse.

  • One of the hallmarks of a Geneva education is that it provides deep and foundational training to every student in the essentials of the Christian classical approach. Electives, or courses that the student chooses, provide each with an opportunity to explore subject matter and skills that expand upon these essentials.  

    In 7th and 8th grades, students choose their arts elective (choir, orchestra, band, or drama). In 9th–12th grade, students choose their foreign language course (Latin, Greek, French, or Spanish), their arts elective (drama, stagecraft, yearbook/journalism, digital photography, studio art, choir, guitar, or orchestra), and an optional academic elective (offerings change each year with the current ones listed on the UPPER SCHOOL PROFILE). In 11th and 12th grades, students choose from several options in math and science. For further information, please consult the rhetoric curriculum page.

  • All students in 2nd–8th grade take the Educational Records Bureau’s Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP) assessment test in the spring. CTP is a reasoning/achievement test battery that is designed to measure learning and distinguish achievement even among higher-level students. Results from the CTP provide the school with important data that we use to improve our curriculum. Our grade levels collectively score in the middle range of the Independent School normed group on the CTP, the highest group against  which schools can compare themselves.

    All 9th–11th grade students take the College Board’s PSAT test in October. PSAT is a standardized test that provides firsthand practice for the SAT®. When taken in the 11th grade year, the PSAT serves as the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT). Students who score in the top 3% on the NMSQT receive National Merit recognition, either as Commended or Semifinalist/Finalist. About 12% of our graduates are recognized by National Merit.

Admission & Enrollment

  • The admission process includes taking a tour, submitting an application, gathering records and reference forms, admission testing and parent and student interviews. Applicants who submit an application by the 15th of each month will receive an admission decision by the 15th of the following month.

  • Our program begins with classes for K4 students. K4 students should be 4 years old by June 1. Kindergarten students should be 5 years old by September 1. Students applying to Geneva will be assessed in order to determine their readiness for the grade for which they are applying.

  • The Geneva School was established in 1993 as a private Christian school committed to providing a Christian classical education to young people in primary and secondary grade levels. The school’s mission statement is:

    • The Geneva School seeks to provide students in grades K4–12 an extraordinary education, by means of an integrated curriculum, pedagogy, and culture, both distinctly classical and distinctively Christian, that pursues goodness, truth, and beauty in all spheres of life, while viewing these spheres as elements of a divinely ordered whole. Geneva exists to inspire students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling.


    Our vision statement states:

    • The Geneva School seeks to become an educational institution of scholastic and cultural gravitas, of extraordinary, exemplary, and virtuous scholars, and a formidable force in the expansion and enrichment of Christ’s kingdom, in the life both of the individual and of the world.


    Lastly, our values statement declares:

    • The Geneva School seeks to instill in the educational community it cultivates an enduring love of learning, a commitment to serve others, and a dedication to the pursuit of religious truth, moral goodness, and aesthetic beauty, forged from historical models of orthodox Christianity.

  • Education today often produces graduates who are underprepared for life’s challenges. Families, the workplace, churches, communities, and nations need graduates from schools like ours more than ever. At Geneva, we focus not just on what students know but on forming who they will become. The Geneva Way lays the foundation for accomplishing our mission: inspiring students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling.

    Christian classical education at The Geneva School is …


    Committed to character formation

    • Rooted in biblical theology

    • Grounded in piety—which is the proper love and fear of God and man

    • Cultivated by a loving, dedicated, discipleship-oriented faculty and staff

    • Accomplished in partnership with parents (in loco parentis)

    • Shaped by a nurturing, Christ-centered schoolwide community


    Focused on life-transforming content

    • Centered on a historic Christian worldview

    • Guided by the liberal arts tradition

    • Engaged in the Great Conversation—interacting with the greatest ideas humans have formed over the centuries

    • Demonstrated by an integrated holistic curriculum

    • Delivered by competent, passionate faculty


    Aspiring to the following distinctive results

    • Individuals who are freed, which is the goal of a liberal arts education

    • Equipped to be lifelong learners

    • Possessing and demonstrating rightly ordered loves

    • Virtuous, wise, and eloquent students who love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling in all of life’s varied endeavors

    • Empowered to step into the world as disciples of Jesus in service of God and neighbor for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom

  • The Geneva School seeks to inspire students to love beauty, think deeply, and pursue Christ’s calling. Our Portrait of a Graduate captures the kind of person we pray our students will substantially become by God’s grace—never fully arriving in this life, but faithfully growing in ways that glorify God, expand his kingdom, serve the common good, and nurture personal flourishing.


    In Relationship to God

    • Integrated Christian–Anchors all learning, living, and loving in Christ, seeing truth, goodness, and beauty as unified in him

    • Joyful Congregant–Delights in worship and fellowship, actively participating in the life of the church as both gift and calling

    • Hopeful Heir–Lives in light of God’s promises, trusting in the sure hope of eternal life and the restoration of all things


    In Relationship to Self

    • Virtuous Learner–Pursues wisdom with diligence, humility, and wonder, ordering the mind and heart toward truth

    • Courageous Steward–Bravely stewarding time, talents, and resources, embracing responsibility and risk in faithful obedience to God’s call and for the sake of his glory.

    • Discerning Pilgrim–Navigates life’s journey with prayerful wisdom, making choices in light of God’s Word and eternal purposes


    In Relationship to Others

    • Loving Neighbor–Extends compassion, justice, and hospitality to all, reflecting Christ’s love in word and deed

    • Eloquent Communicator–Speaks and writes with clarity, beauty, and conviction, aiming to edify and persuade in truth

    • Servant Leader–Exercises influence through humility, courage, and service, seeking the flourishing of others above self

Campus Safety

  • School safety and security protocols are multi-layered and include our use of Raptor Technologies for visitor, dismissal, and emergency management. The school employs two off-duty police officers each day who help manage morning drop-off and afternoon dismissal traffic on Seminola Blvd as well as provide security to our campus during the school day.

  • Geneva is a distinctly Christian school and as such, disciples/disciplines students within the tension between the reality of a broken world and the accomplished victory of faith and eternal purpose for those who are in Christ. We recognize that we all fall short and the only path forward is with God’s perfection, not our own. We desire to join parents in the important task of raising godly and mature adults. This is a long view that accepts there will be mistakes and bad behavior that requires redemptive discipline on the path to maturity. 

    Students in 7th and 8th grades abide by a Dialectic School Covenant that we review each year. For the students, the covenant states:

    • As students of the dialectic school, we affirm that we are young men and young women created in the Image of God. We also understand that our identity rests in Christ, and we have been called to cultivate excellence and virtue. Therefore, we will strive to do our schoolwork with honesty, integrity, and excellence, knowing that we are called to be good stewards of the gifts and talents given to us by God. We submit to the authority of our teachers, knowing that they have been called to help prepare us academically, spiritually, socially, and behaviorally to serve Christ and his kingdom.

    In 9th–12th grade, students recite the Rhetoric School Honor Code throughout the year. The code states:

    • Out of the threefold desire to honor God, respect my school, and value my classmates, I pledge, as a student at The Geneva School, to strive to do my best in all things. I promise to abide by all school policies. I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate classmates who do. In confirmation of my pledge to you and my accountability before the Lord Jesus Christ, I profess that in all of my school work, my name affirms my honor; in all of my dealings, my word is my bond.

Finances & Tuition

  • Tuition for 2026–2027 will be $11,000 for K4; $18,230 for kindergarten; $23,850 for 1st–6th grade; and $24,165 for 7th–12th grade. The State of Florida provides scholarships to every student in the state who is eligible for K–12 public schooling, regardless of income. If parents apply for the scholarship, the tuition amounts listed here for kindergarten through 12th grade is reduced by approximately $8,000. 

    Tuition covers the cost of the educational program. This includes books, personnel, facilities, and curriculum. Tuition does not cover field trips, class activities, overnight trips, yearbook, school uniform, lunch program, and participation in cocurricular activities or athletics.

  • From its founding, Geneva has had a strong commitment to making the school financially accessible to families who desire a Christian classical education for their children. We know that there is great diversity in families' income and assets and so we have built a program that recognizes those differences and provides a tuition that we believe is right for our families. The school provides adjustments to the tuition through our tuition management program. Tuition adjustments are made based on the results of an application. The school also provides three payment options:


    Annual: Tuition paid in full by May 10.

    Semester: Tuition paid in two equal installments, the first by May 10 and the second by October 10. A $70 administrative fee divided between installments is added. 

    Monthly: Tuition paid in ten monthly payments on May 10, June 10, July 10, August 10, September 10, October 10, November 10, December 10, January 10, and March 10. A $350 administrative fee divided among installments is added. A tuition payment is not made in February due to the reenrollment fee assessed that month.

General Information

  • No, Geneva is an independent school, not affiliated with any church or denomination. There are nearly 100 different churches represented in the community.

  • While being a Christian is not a requirement for entrance to Geneva, about 90% of our students attend a Christian church regularly.

  • Students in K4 have classes from 8:00 am to 12:10 pm the first few weeks of each school year. After that, their classes are from 8:00 am to 1:10 pm. Kindergarten students have classes from 8:00 am to 12:50 pm the first few weeks of the school year. After that, their classes are from 8:00 am to 2:10 pm.

    Students in 1st–6th grade have classes from 8:00 am to 2:50 pm. Students in 7th–12th grade have classes from 8:25 am to 3:15 pm.

    A few times each year (such as before Christmas or spring break), students are dismissed from school early. See the SCHOOL CALENDAR for more information about the early dismissal dates as well as school year beginning and ending dates and school holidays.

    Early Dismissal: On early dismissal days, grammar school students dismiss at noon. No lunch program or aftercare is provided on these days.

    For more information on school hours, drop-off and pickup times, early dismissal, lunch schedules, and the dialectic and rhetoric school bell schedule can be found on the School Hours/Schedules page.

  • Yes, at Geneva we believe that uniforms play an important role in maintaining a culture conducive to learning. Uniforms encourage a sense of school identity and unity and also help to raise the standards of the school’s academic and cultural pursuits.

    For specifics about the uniform guidelines and where to purchase uniforms, please visit the Uniform Guidelines page.

  • Yes, Geneva’s lunch program has options for students every weekday and begins the first day of school. Lunch orders are made on a month-to-month basis. The lunch options provide families with cost-effective, enjoyable, and convenient choices. 

    Geneva’s lunch program is run as a fundraiser in support of our athletics program. For further information about the lunch program and to submit an order, please visit the Lunch Program page.

  • At Geneva, engagement in learning does not stop at the end of May. Each summer, Geneva offers a variety of summer camps on campus for students of all ages during June and July. The camps cover a wide array of activities and include camps focused on sports, cooking, Bible study, gardening, math, photography, cheer, drama, board games, sewing, and more. The camp offerings are posted each February or March and fill quickly so parents are encouraged to look for announcements after the first of the year.

  • During the school day, faculty and staff work in loco parentis (Latin for “in the place of a parent”), temporarily taking the role of the student’s parent. This delegated authority is the basis for the partnership between the school and the home. School personnel are able to stand in loco parentis as they share with parents values, goals, and desires for the child. Like any partnership, the one between the teacher and the parent is built on trust and open lines of communication.  

    The school has many opportunities for parents to volunteer at the school. Parents can volunteer in the classroom, for large school events, for the SALT (Serving and Learning Together) serveathon, office help, taking photos and videos at school events and field trips, and many other opportunities. 

    Parents at Geneva also value building relationships with other parents through a variety of events both on and off campus: gathering for dinner, doing a Bible study, meeting for an evening activity, morning coffees, walks, and many other opportunities.

  • The school provides information to school families through various channels. These include daily announcements, a weekly ZipCast, a weekly email, social media, and a quarterly magazine.

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