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Dear Friends, We are delighted in your interest in Great Hearts Academies. We hope our website provides a useful overview of our mission, our school program, and our academic results. The success of Great Hearts is based on combining an unwavering commitment to Classical, Liberal Arts education with the understanding that our schools can constantly be improved through sound, data-driven leadership. Our founders commissioned the name "Great Hearts" for our organization because we never want to lose sight of our ultimate purpose: to graduate great-hearted Seniors, magnanimous young men and women with the capacity for the meaningful leadership that our culture so desperately needs. Each of our graduates is characterized by a life-long commitment to the pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty.
Onward and Upward, 
Dr. Daniel Scoggin, Chief Executive Officer
The mission of Great Hearts Academies [501(c)(3)] is to create a network of academically rigorous, liberal arts middle and high schools in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. This network will prepare its graduates for college and to be leaders in creating a more philosophical, humane, and just society. Through its graduates and presence in the market, Great Hearts will be a catalyst for improving public education opportunities in the region. Based on the success of the founding academies, Great Hearts sets high goals for all of the schools in the network: Average annual student retention rate of 90%. 90% of graduates will directly attend a four-year college or university. The average total score of seniors on any portion of the SAT college board exams will exceed 600. Example: 1200, previous scoring system, 1800, new scoring system. 75% of high school students will complete at least one extra-curricular season each year. 90% of parents who respond will rate their academy as successful in preparing their child for college and life. All students will pass all portions of the mandatory AIMS graduation test by the end of the 11th grade; 90% of 10th graders will meet all standards on their first attempt. 7th, 8th, and 9th graders will maintain an average national percentile score on the Terra Nova of at least 80%. From its current size of four schools, Great Hearts will build a network of twelve academies by 2013. Each new school will be rolled out after careful research and demonstrated parent demand from families drawn to the core curriculum, small school culture, and the performance of existing schools. At capacity, the network will graduate 700 students each year. This critical mass of highly impressive graduates will change the perceptions of colleges and universities around the nation regarding secondary education in Arizona. More importantly, Arizona will benefit from this consistent supply of "home-grown" leaders who are liberally educated, clear thinkers.
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