"Trinity Academy is a K-12 college preparatory community, where faith and reason meet creative expression."

We believe that Trinity Academy offers an entirely unique educational experience for families in the Triangle Area because, in partnership with parents, we combine exceptional academic, fine arts and athletic programs with refreshingly authentic Christianity.

About College Preparatory:

• In recent years, 100% of Trinity graduates have been accepted to college. More than 70 colleges and universities, including numerous highly prestigious institutions, have accepted Trinity graduates.
• Trinity provides an outstanding college guidance service, and recent graduating classes have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in merit scholarships from the colleges and universities they have attended.
• Trinity Academy is not just College Preparatory. Trinity is "Life Preparatory."
• Trinity's program is based upon the classical Liberal Arts and Sciences, which impart the knowledge, skills and virtues necessary to succeed in any life venture.
• The path to college preparation begins with our philosophy of academic excellence. Our faculty develops the curriculum and whole-school scopes and sequences, with upper school specialists working with lower school teachers in selecting the best curricular materials available to support each individual area of instruction.
• The core curriculum emphasizes the development of critical thinking, writing and public speaking skills and focuses upon the interrelationship of history, literature, natural science, mathematics, classical and modern foreign languages (K-12), fine arts, religious studies, the linguistic arts of grammar, logic and rhetoric, and physical education.
• We believe that involvement in team sports provides a formative experience for our students, which is central to the education we offer, building character, confidence and esprit de corps. The field and court serve as "laboratories," reinforcing Christian world-and-life-view development.
• Together, our players, coaches and parents learn how serious competition and Christ-like humility combine to instill godly virtues and develop important life skills, which resulted in state championships in Varsity Men's and Women's Soccer this year.

About the Trinity Community:

• Perhaps the most highly valued characteristic of Trinity Academy of Raleigh is our sense of Community.
• " While only God can know the heart of a child or a family, Trinity Academy attracts students and families that want a distinctly Christian program and culture.
• Trinity Academy is more than just a school for your children; it is a Community of Faith and Learning where parents are involved in their child's education and where students are accepted and feel a sense of belonging.
• Trinity provides its students with a culture of responsibility, seasoned with grace. Our commitment is to maintain an environment in which students, staff and families live according to biblical standards of behavior, with an emphasis upon developing quality relationships.
• At Trinity Academy, you will find parents praying together for God's blessing on our school and families, serving on school committees, supervising our hot lunch program, reading in a first grade classroom, helping with a fifth grade art project, carpooling to a volleyball game and assisting coaches with our sports teams. This high level of parent participation has built, and sustains, a strong foundation for the Trinity Community.
• Upper school students participate in after-school athletic practices and games and a structured after-school program (After School Adventure) is currently provided for lower school students two days a week, with plans to gradually expand our optional after-school offerings to 5 days.
• Trinity's community provides a safe, nurturing and inviting environment, where students and families can learn, mature and grow in their understanding of God, the world and themselves.

About Faith and Reason:

• Trinity is purposeful about helping our students become "thinking Christians."
• Our program is designed to develop both mind and character.
• We don't tell our students what to think… We teach them how to think."
• We are unapologetic about the centrality of Christ, Christianity and the Scriptures to all we teach and learn, while being purposeful about developing critical thinking skills in every student. "Thinking" is part of the stated curriculum in the lower school, and upper school students take required courses in formal and informal logic.
• We are helping every student to develop a world-and-life-view that is thoughtful, rational and distinctly Christian. As an interdenominational community, we respect the various traditions that different families bring to the Trinity Community. But, we want our students to know what they believe and why they believe it. We want them to "own" their beliefs, take responsibility for them and be able to defend them. As an example, high school students regularly engage in civil discourse about theological issues such as "predestination and free will."
• When it comes to exposing students to the controversial issues and ideas of the world, we believe in age-appropriate "inoculation…not quarantine." Since students will encounter every worldly idea in college and beyond, we want them to wrestle with these ideas while under the tutelage of godly teachers and while they can still talk about issues with Mom and Dad at dinner every night.
• Trinity sponsors an entirely unique program of Forum and Dialogue for upper school students, through which guest speakers present controversial topics that students then discuss in small groups, facilitated by teachers trained in facilitating dialogue (structured open discussion).

About Creative Expression:

• It is not enough for our students to be wise (although this is an important outcome and a goal of the education we provide). But, in order to be positive contributors to their culture and effective apologists for Christ and the Christian life, and in order to be successful in any of life's callings, they must also be eloquent.
• We are a school emphasizing writing both in excellence and frequency. Our high school curriculum requires a year-long major research paper of every student all four years. In addition, a new approach to our 4-12 humanities curriculum will emphasize creative writing as part of every course, in addition to research-based writing.
• We are a school developing future leaders. Leaders must be eloquent in speech, as well as written expression. Every upper school student takes two years of formal Rhetoric, learning to be confident, articulate and persuasive public speakers. This summer, we will formalize an already strong lower school oratory curriculum to better prepare our students for upper school rhetoric.
• Trinity has an exceptional program in the fine arts.
  • Every lower school student takes classes in music and art that include elements of theory, appreciation, history and performance.
  • Every upper school student takes two fine arts classes each year, choosing among Choir, Art and Drama. This two-arts requirement has resulted in many students discovering real talent they did not know they had.
  • We will be adding a band program in the coming years.