Toledo, Ohio ✦ Opening Fall 2026
Educating Children
for Eternity
A K–12 Classical Liberal Arts Academy in the Catholic Tradition, forming the whole person in wisdom, virtue, and faith.
“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
St. Thomas Aquinas Classical Academy exists to assist parents in the formation of their children — in the wisdom of the Great Tradition, the virtue of the saints, and the joy of a life ordered to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
Two Paths, One Mission
I · Schola Plena
Full-Time Academy
A five-day immersion in classical pedagogy, daily prayer, and the rhythm of a true scholastic community. Opening K–8 for Fall 2026, with interest warmly welcomed from Grade 7–8 families preparing for the Upper School.
Discover the Path
II · Schola Domestica
Hybrid Academy
A partnership with homeschooling families — Mondays and Wednesdays of classroom instruction with master teachers, and Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays of formation in the domestic church.
Discover the PathThe Classical Difference
Three transcendentals that order all our learning — and our living.
Truth
The conformity of the mind to reality, and the reality of God revealed in Christ. We pursue what is so, in every discipline.
Goodness
The ordering of the will toward the highest good through habituation, charity, and the imitation of the saints.
Beauty
The splendor of truth made visible in liturgy, in art, in the harmony of creation, and in the soul rightly ordered.
Grammar. Logic.
Rhetoric.
The classical liberal arts unfold in the soul of a child as naturally as the seasons unfold over the earth — in three ordered stages of wisdom.
Grammar
Grades K–5
The age of wonder.
Children delight in memorization, song, and the foundational ordering of the world — names, numbers, sounds, stories.
Logic
Grades 6–8
The age of inquiry.
Students discover the structure of arguments and the joy of reasoning rightly from cause to effect.
Rhetoric
Grades 9–12
The age of expression.
Young men and women learn to speak and write with eloquence, charity, and the courage of their convictions.
A life ordered to prayer.
Our academy is, before all else, a house of prayer. Every page studied, every problem solved, every song sung is offered to the One in whom all things hold together.
Morning Offering
Each day begins by entrusting our work, study, and play to the Lord.
Saint of the Day
A new heavenly friend each morning — a companion and intercessor for the day.
Daily Virtue Lesson
An ordered formation in the cardinal and theological virtues, day by day.
The Angelus
Prayed before lunch, joining our school to the daily prayer of the Church.
Rosary & Marian Devotion
After lunch, the Rosary or another Marian devotion entrusts our students to the Mother of God.
Sacred Music
Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony, lifting the soul toward God.
As permissions and parish partnerships allow, STACA hopes to provide opportunities for students to attend Mass and to receive the sacraments during the week.
Enter the Chapel“We are not building a school. We are restoring a way of life — one in which children are taught to love the things that are most worthy of love.”
Kathleen Williams
Founder & Headmistress
Drawing from twenty years of teaching in the Catholic tradition and a deep love for the Great Books tradition, Kathleen founded STACA to give the families of Toledo what she could not find for her own children: a school that takes seriously the eternal destiny of every soul entrusted to it.
Read Her Story
Come build something beautiful.
Whether as a parent, a partner, or a friend in prayer —
your place at this table is prepared.