Ocoee Classical Academy graduates are formed with the end in view: to know and love God above all else, to love their neighbors as themselves, and to pursue a life that honors God — the cultivation of Christian virtue and rightly ordered affections.
Ocoee Classical Academy Alumni love God:
- With all their hearts, souls, minds, and strength, and know Him through Christ, His Word, and His creation. They treasure the God of the Old and New Testament Scriptures as their Savior and greatest joy. Their chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. (Luke 10:27)
- By loving and serving all people who are created in God’s image, reflecting the heart of God for people. Graduates seek to obey the biblical mandate to love their neighbor as themselves and to do to others as they would have them do to them. (Psalm 82, Micah 6:8)
- By embracing and embodying the classical and theological virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance, faith, hope, and love. They learn to love what God loves, hate what He hates, and place the highest value on all that is true, good, and beautiful — knowing Jesus Christ as the perfect embodiment of these transcendentals. (1 Corinthians 13:13, Galatians 5:22-23)
- By having their souls continually formed through the joy of lifelong learning. Broadly read in the great works of Western civilization and trained in the methodologies of classical education, they possess both a genuine love of learning and the intellectual tools to master any discipline to which the Lord calls them. (Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 3:18)
- By seeing the beauty in God’s creation and allowing it to evoke worship in every endeavor. They cultivate rightly ordered affections so that beauty stirs their hearts toward awe, gratitude, and faithful creativity in Christ. (Psalm 19:1, Colossians 3:16)
- By utilizing Godly discernment, logic, and critical thinking to solidify a reasoned faith and a clear understanding of their beliefs. Formally trained in logic and rhetoric and grounded in Scripture with broad academic exposure, they think deeply, reason carefully, form wise convictions, and formulate cogent arguments. (1 Peter 3:15, Ephesians 5:6, Matthew 22:37)
- By clearly articulating God’s truth with grace and eloquence. Graduates defend and communicate truth persuasively in speech and writing with clarity, precision, and winsomeness for the sake of Christ and His kingdom. (Psalm 37:30, 1 Peter 3:15)
Graduates understand that their formation is not for personal success alone. Their knowledge, virtues, and skills are given for the advance of God’s Kingdom. They actively participate in disciple-making and carry the gospel into every area of life as they serve others and seek to honor Christ in all things.
In this way, Ocoee Classical Academy graduates emerge as young men and women who love God supremely, love others sacrificially, love learning deeply, and live with purpose — equipped to honor Christ in every sphere of life.