Tempe Preparatory Academy

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Tempe Preparatory Academy
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Tempe Preparatory Academy
Tempe
,
Arizona

United States
Coordinates 33°23′33″N111°55′07″W / 33.392611°N 111.918514°W / 33.392611; -111.918514
Information
TypePublic (charter) secondary
MottoVerum, pulchrum, bonum
"Truth, beauty, goodness"
Established1996
Grades6–12
EnrollmentHigh School: About 240 students. Junior High School: About 200 students (May 2015)
Color(s)Royal blue and gold
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Mascot Knights [1]
Accreditation North Central Association, American Academy for Liberal Education
Website http://www.tempeprep.org/

Tempe Preparatory Academy is a public charter school in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States. Founded in 1996, Tempe Preparatory Academy (also known as Tempe Prep or TPA) offers a Great Books, core liberal arts curriculum centered on Western tradition, history, language, and literature. Its motto is Verum, Pulchrum, Bonum, meaning Truth, Beauty, Goodness. It is also the founding model for the Great Hearts Academies schools, with which it is otherwise unaffiliated. Tempe Prep is an independently-governed public charter school. Since 2015,[ when? ] the headmaster has been Wayne 'Richy' Richard Porter. Past headmasters include Thomas Butler, Andrew Zwernaman, Daniel Scoggin, George Lowe, Ron Bergez, Julie Boles, Hugh Hallman (a past Mayor of Tempe), and David Baum.

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Academic and Extracurricular Recognition

Tempe Prep's Academic Recognitions include:

Academics

Tempe Preparatory Academy offers a set academic curriculum for each grade level. In addition, 9-12th grade students may choose to study Latin/Greek, French, Spanish, or German.

"A cornerstone of the liberal arts curriculum at Tempe Preparatory Academy is the Humane Letters Seminar. In the 9th through 12th grades, English, history, philosophy, and economics are combined in Humane Letters, a 2-hour long, daily seminar directed Socratically and revolving around primary source readings from Western Civilization’s best works. The goal of the HL sequence is to help students understand the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) in the humanities through close textual readings, daily group discussions, and intensive, progressive writing assignments". [5]

Tempe Preparatory Academy added a 6th grade in 2008.

Senior thesis and defense

"The culminating project for an Academy student is the Senior Thesis. At the beginning of the senior year, the student selects a field of inquiry from the curriculum — literature, philosophy, math, science, the arts — and then reads three or four substantial primary texts to examine in preparation for writing a 15 - 20 page analytical paper. At its core, the thesis is an exploration of one of the “Six Great Ideas” of humanity summarized as Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Justice, Liberty, and Equality. Students discuss texts in small group seminars composed of students, faculty, staff and board members, and work individually with a faculty member on the paper. After submitting the paper in the second semester, the senior then publicly defends the thesis before a three-member panel of faculty reviewers and also the community at large". [5]

Student life

Activities

Tempe Prep offers many extracurriculars in fine arts and academics. Although Tempe Prep is a small school, the Speech and Debate team and Odyssey of the Mind teams are competitive, regularly placing in the top 5 at tournaments with many schools over 10 times the size.[ citation needed ] Tempe Prep has won the Arizona 1A-2A-3A State Champion in Speech and Debate every year from 2006, through 2013. [7] The Speech and Debate team moved to AIA Division I competition as of 2013. The Odyssey of the Mind teams won the State Championship between 2002 until 2007 with a World Final Placement of 5th place in 2004, 4th place in 2007, 2nd place in 2008, and 5th place in the 2009 World Finals Competition.[ citation needed ]

Extracurricular Academic Clubs include, Speech and Debate (nine years state champions), Origami Club, Odyssey of the Mind, High School Robotics Club (5th in World Competition 2015), Junior High Robotics League, Improv Club, Pre-Med Club, Art Club, Spanish Club, Yearbook, School Newspaper, and National Honor Society.

The school also offers numerous Extracurricular Performing Arts Groups, such as Spring Opera Workshop, Sinfonia (school orchestra), Junior Varsity Strings, Junior High Choir, and Cantamus, High School varsity choir, which sang at Carnegie Hall in the summer of 2007.

Athletics

In high school athletics, Tempe Prep competes in the AIA (Arizona Interscholastic Association) and is a member of its Div 4 Conference. Among the school's strengths are track and field, where the women's team has won six state titles including five straight from 2005 to 2009, runner-up 2012, 2013, 2014 [8] and the men's team has won three of its own. [9] In women's soccer, the school won the state 1A-2A-3A winter championship in 2008; [10] they also claimed the Women's Division IV basketball championship in 2012 and were runners-up in 2013, losing the title by 2 points in the last 14 seconds of the game. [11] In total, Tempe Prep high school sports teams have won a total of 11 state championships. In 2014, Tempe Prep become the first charter school in Arizona history to reach a state football final. [12] Junior high athletics compete in the Valley Christian Schools League

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tempe Preparatory Academy". Arizona Interscholastic Association. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  2. ↑ http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/2008/2008-schools.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. ↑ "School Report Card" . Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  4. ↑ "Best Charter Schools in Greater Phoenix" . Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  5. 1 2 tempeprep.org
  6. ↑ "About TPA:: Curriculum". Tempe Preparatory Academy. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  7. ↑ "Results". 7 April 2011.
  8. ↑ "Girls' track and field championship records from the AIA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-15.
  9. ↑ "Boys' track and field championship records from the AIA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-23.
  10. ↑ "Girls' soccer championship records from the AIA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-11.
  11. ↑ "Girls' basketball title records from the AIA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-23.
  12. ↑ "Slide 71 of this slideshow".
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