A distinctively Christian and Classical education, equipping high school students to become lifelong learners seeking to serve others

Rhetoric Program Overview

Building a foundation for life-long learning and growth, clear thinking, and servant leadership, Greenhouse Christian Co-School’s Rhetoric program equips students in grades 9 -12. Students attend class on campus with professional teachers one day a week. Graduates are prepared to flourish in an academic college environment, but students who choose other paths have a solid foundation of learning that will serve them wherever God leads them.

Our trained faculty utilize every opportunity available through the cohort model to shepherd students' hearts and teach them to live with integrity and compassion.

Rich Scholarship

The Rhetoric core program fully encompasses History, Literature, and Lab Science, with exposure to other subjects like Government and Advanced Composition. Much of the coursework is offered at an Honors level. The program builds in such a way that by junior and senior years, students are studying at near collegiate level (many earning dual credit), which ensures the academic transition to college is seamless.

High school is a time for children to move from dependence to independence, but as Christ followers we are called to live in community. Greenhouse helps students understand and value interdependence. While high school students learn to think for themselves, they also realize that their cohort (fellow students), parents, and teachers all play a role in helping them learn how to manage time and bring their best to bear on their studies.

Nurturing Community

The Rhetoric high school program seeks to cultivate a community which fosters humility and forbearance. Our high school students learn to respectfully disagree, and articulate a cogent argument. Within their cohorts, students come to value one another’s strengths and compensate for weaknesses. Together they learn to demonstrate love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and that ever slippery self-control. Working in a small learning community challenges students, helps them grow in character, live out their faith, and learn to rely on Christ.

While Developing a Christlike Character

If Greenhouse succeeds in producing students who only perform well academically, we will have failed. In a world fractured by divisive rhetoric, Greenhouse models and teaches civility and charity. We are committed to forming young adults who stand ready to serve others. Our students learn to think; but most importantly we desire to impart the skills needed to live and speak in ways that reflect Christ in the context of community.