Welcome to Great Hearts Glendale Prep, Serving Grades 6-12
Glendale Prep, serving grades 6-12, sits in the northwest Valley in Peoria. Families choose Glendale Prep because it offers a rare combination: the intellectual seriousness of a Great Books program, the camaraderie of a close-knit house system, and the accessibility of a public campus that charges no tuition but refuses to economize on wonder.
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Virtual Tour
Begin your journey into the heart of classical education with just a click. Watch a virtual tour of Glendale Prep where we foster virtuous scholars and deep thinkers. Witness firsthand how our teachers inspire a passion for lifelong learning, logic, and moral integrity. This isn't merely a tour of our school; it's a gateway to becoming part of a community dedicated to academic excellence and living the values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Discover the unique spirit of Great Hearts—where every lesson shapes well-rounded, virtuous citizens.
Why Families Choose Glendale Prep
Mission-Driven Excellence
Everything we do points back to our pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. A well-rounded curriculum—literature, mathematics, science, fine arts, and humanities—invites students into the “Great Conversation” of the Western Tradition.
Personal Growth & High Expectations
Socratic dialogue sparks curiosity, while clear routines foster both joy and order. Students meet high academic standards and are supported by teachers who know and love them.
Character at the Core
Courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom are woven into daily life. The best schools shape hearts as well as minds, forming compassionate young citizens ready to serve their communities.
Academics at Glendale Prep begin in wonder and rise toward mastery.
During the middle-school years students commit Latin declensions to memory, dissect the logic of Euclid’s first propositions, and practice Socratic dialogue in Humane Letters seminars that weave history and literature into a single narrative. These encounters cultivate habits of attention and articulate speech—the grammar and logic of learning upon which the rest of their studies depend. When students enter high school, the curriculum widens into an honors sequence recognizable to anyone who has studied in an elite preparatory academy: four years of original-source science, mathematics through calculus, and sustained engagement with authors from Homer and Virgil to Tocqueville and Dostoevsky. The results speak for themselves. Glendale Prep students routinely earn gold and silver medals on the National Latin Exam, and last year’s graduating class reported scholarship offers that surpassed $4.5 million dollars.
Yet Glendale Prep refuses to measure success by transcripts alone.
The heart of the program is virtue education woven quietly into everything: the patience required to master a Euclidean proof, the courage to deliver an unflinching speech, the temperance that comes from balanced study and leisure, and the justice practiced when older students mentor sixth-graders through the House system.
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A Welcoming Community for Every Family
Our campus on 83rd Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road sits minutes from the Loop 101, making the academy accessible to families across Glendale, Peoria, Surprise, and the Northwest Valley.
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Questions? Give us a call at (623) 889-0822
Start with the virtual tour, then schedule an on-campus tour where you can observe classes, chat with students, and meet faculty. If you share our belief that the best school is one that shapes both intellect and heart, you will find a home here among the Griffins. We look forward to welcoming your family into a tradition that stretches back to Socrates and forward to whatever brave new world our graduates will one day inherit.
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