student life overview

At Chattanooga Classical Academy, student life is an extension of our mission. We use the word co-curricular intentionally. These offerings are not extras added around the edges of school life. They stand beside the curriculum and help complete it, forming the whole person and providing delightful shared experienced.

  • Faculty-Led Culture: Leadership beyond the classroom through clubs, coaching, mentoring, projects, and shared school life

  • Tertulia Lunches: Meals that cultivate conversation, hospitality, friendship, and community.

  • Fine Arts: Instrumental and vocal music, visual arts, drama, dance, public speaking, and more. The arts train attention, craftsmanship, patience, revision, and delight.

  • Common Arts: Gardening, cooking, preserving, woodworking, decorating, aid, and other practical skills teach students to care for ordinary life with practiced wisdom.

  • Athletics & Outdoor Life: Building strength, endurance, teamwork, courage, and self-command through physical education, athletics, outdoor games, field days, class retreats, house competitions, and seasonal outdoor pastimes.

  • Theatre, Debate, and Public Expression: Students develop clarity, courage, humility, and charity through faithful practice.

  • Service & Care for Our Neighbors: Campus beautification, hospitality, mentoring younger students, local ministry partnerships, event support, gardening, repair, and other faithful work.

  • Student Leadership: Opportunities take increasing responsibility for clubs, projects, service opportunities, events, mentoring, and the shared culture of the school.

  • House Life and Shared Traditions: Our means of passing on the culture and building school-wide relationships.

  • Clubs and Special Interests: An ever-evolving list of opportunities born from the unique profile of our school community at any given time.

Through these offerings, CCA looks for signs of flourishing beyond grades, rankings, and college acceptances: students who happy because they are virtuous, students who are proud of dignified work and joyful in shared community.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry