Mission

Providence Classical Academy (PCA) serves families throughout Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts.

We partner with parents to cultivate in students a love for learning and a discipline for learning in order to love God and neighbor.

For the 2025-2026 school year, we will offer grades Pre-K thru 7th grade, and plan to add (at least) 1 grade each year up to 12th grade (Lord-willing) by 2030.

Core Virtues:

Veritas (Truth)

Sapientia (Wisdom)

Caritas (Love)

Fortitudo (Courage)

Educational Values

We are aiming to cultivate these values in our students:

A deep relationship with Christ is encouraged through Bible stories, examples of strong morality found in literature, memorizing verses, studying patterns, and seeing the beauty found in God’s creation.
Good habits are established by setting age-level expectations which provide structure and consistency throughout the day.
A child’s imagination is cultivated through the study of living books, poetry, artists, composers, and songs.
Leadership skills are promoted with multi-age learning environments and the PCA house system.
A love of learning is developed through a joyful environment where a community of learners are actively engaged in their daily work.
Guided discovery is cherished as time is devoted to nature exploration, understanding relationships between disciplines, listening to student insight, monitoring observations, and a variety of additional teaching practices.
Cultural diversity is valued through the study of foreign language and world cultures.
Humble confidence is nurtured in our students as they grow in knowledge and wisdom. We are confident that God reveals His truth to us in his Word and in the world. We are humbled by the effects of sin that make it difficult for us to know and apply truth rightly.

Our Story

In 2021, a group families in the greater Providence area began to dream and pray about starting a classical Christian school in Rhode Island. Then they asked others about their interest for a different education option for their children.

Over the following years, dozens of families have shown interest and attended informational meetings for the launch of a collaborative, classical school in Rhode Island.

Providence Classical Academy launched its inaugural academic year (pre-k – 6th grade) in September of 2024 with the plan to add a grade each successive year up to 12th grade.

Our Name

The word providence not only refers to our location (capital of Rhode Island) but also references God's purposeful sovereignty over all things, including this school.

The word classical refers to the educational method we use, a robust way of learning that nurtures the intellectual, moral, aesthetic, spiritual, and physical capacities of students with a rich and ordered course of study.

The word academy describes our education community of students, teachers, and parents; a place of learning and maturing to become virtuous people reflecting and following the very wisdom of God, Jesus Christ, full of grace and truth.

Accreditation and Affiliations

Providence Classical Academy (PCA) is recognized by the State of Rhode Island as an independent organization, and not directly connected to one particular church or denomination.

PCA is a member of the Classical Latin School Association (CLSA), Assoc. of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), and the Society for Classical Learning (SCL) and intends to pursue accreditation through one or more of these (and possibly other) organizations.

In preparing to launch, we have also worked in close partnership with Trinity Classical School in Houston, Texas, and Two Rivers Classical Academy in Des Moines, Iowa, among other similar like-minded schools.

Portrait of a Graduate

Begin with the end in mind. At PCA, our vision statement paints a Portrait of a Graduate: a student who has progressed through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages of the Trivium and has moved into adulthood and life beyond high school.

What kind of adults–what kind of humans–do we want our students to be?

This Portrait of the Graduate is a sketch of the main characteristics that we hope to cultivate in the students we graduate from our school, and it informs all that we hope to accomplish as Christian educators, as an institution, and as a community of faith and learning.

We cultivate passion and depth in students through an imaginative, faithful, and intelligent exploration of God’s word and world. PCA takes a classical and Christ-centered approach to education because we care about worship. We want our students to understand that we study, experiment, think, discuss, write, debate, and create because we believe this is what it means to be created in the image of God

We envision graduating students who will exhibit PCA’s four core virtues of truth, wisdom, love, and courage as they continue the principles and practices of their classical, Christian, and collaborative education.

CLASSICAL

By God’s grace, each graduate of PCA will be:

A lover of learning. (Eph. 3:14-20)
A well-rounded citizen. (Phil. 3:20-21, 1 Peter 3:13-17)
An enthusiast of language. (John 1:1)
A good reader (Psalm 1)
A logical thinker. (2 Tim. 1:6-14)

CHRISTIAN

By God’s grace, each graduate of PCA will be:

A lover of God. (Matt. 22:36-40)
An ambassador for Christ. (2 Cor. 5:20)
A disciplined worker. (1. Cor. 10:31, Col. 3:17)

COLLABORATIVE

By God’s grace, each graduate of PCA will be:

A helper to others. (Phil. 2:1-11)
A devotee of the church. (Eph. 4)
A godly communicator. (Eph. 4:15)

200 Pettaconsett Avenue, Warwick, RI 02888

Just south of Providence, north of TF Green airport

This facility is located in the quaint and quiet Norwood neighborhood of northern Warwick.

The facility has beautiful, recently renovated classrooms and meeting spaces, an indoor gymnasium, and a fenced-in outdoor playground surrounded with grass.

Behind the building is more open field space to the property fence line, and behind that is public park.