Classical Christian School in Okemos, MI

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Cedar Classical Academy is a two-year-old full-time classical Christian school located in Lansing Chinese Christian Church in Okemos, MI with 60 students in Grades K-8 for the 2021-2022 academic year.

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MISSION & VISION

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WHO WE ARE

Meet our administrative and teaching staff.

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Support from parents:

"What a blessing this school has been to our family. Teaching from a Christian worldview and framework, the school does not shy away from hard topics but aims to build up students to face ease and hardship with grit and joy. Our kids love going to school every day and are forming good, positive friendships with the other students in their classes."

Jesse & Amber

"Cedar Classical Academy has gone above and beyond in exceeding any expectations that I had for a private, Christian school. The academics push students to work hard, be self-disciplined and provide the framework for lifelong learning."

Ryan & Kate

"We want our kids to go to Cedar Classical Academy so that they will appreciate beauty and see God's hand in the world, learn self-discipline, learn how to approach learning a new subject, learn Latin as a bridge to other languages, and have community with peers who are like-minded but not exactly like us."

Alex & Chetta

"Cedar Classical Academy is a long-term investment in the lives of our children and, through the partnership model, we as parents are growing as well. Goodness, truth, and beauty are all evident - they flow through every part of the Academy - and our family is falling more in love with the glory of God in all of life because of it."

Barry & Sarah

"Sending our 4th and 5th graders to CCA this year was life changing for them. My husband and I had only heard about classical education, but hadn’t paid much attention to it. It was entirely different than public school! Learning at CCA feels like an adventure to our kids compared to the drudgery of trying to learn with the (often) boring curriculum in public elementary school."

Nathanael & Mari

"We came to Cedar as we were looking for a school that would invest in our children's character and faith in addition to academics and that is why we have stayed; we are truly thankful for the community here."

Josh & Colleen

Communities We Serve:

Bath

DeWitt

Dimondale

East Lansing

Grand Ledge

Haslett

Holt

Lansing

Okemos

Williamston

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Friday morning Latin in Miss Stieren's 3rd Grade Latin class.

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Harvesting Where We Did Not Plant: The Story of a Brick-and-Mortar School

In the summer of 2017 on a sweltering weekday morning, I parked just south of the Capitol and walked to the Michigan Department of Education, holding the hands of my two toddlers, in order to get a letter of approval declaring us a school. I had tried and failed to register our school with the […]

The Value of Reading Together

If you have a student in Cedar in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, or 2nd Grade, then you are familiar with this instruction on their take-home sheets: “Read at home with your student.” But what exactly does that mean? What should reading at home with your student look like? The Secret Sauce Let’s start with an encouraging […]

Five Tips to Enjoy Nature with Your Family

Building family culture is simply about doing things together. Shared experiences, shared interests, and repeated activities (traditions) are what stick in kids’ memories and make your family a fun place to belong. Exploring nature is together is a relatively easy, free activity that is accessible to all. Even if the outdoors isn’t your thing, the […]

Three Ways to Reinforce Classical Education at Home

If what your children do at school matters, then how they live at home ought to matter even more. At Cedar, we want our students to celebrate the continuity in the Lord’s sovereignty and grace in all things, whether that be during a lesson on fractions or while taking out the trash at home. We […]

Family Worship

Jason Helopoulos is a Cedar dad since 2019 and pastor of University Reformed Church. He is author of A Neglected Grace: Family Worship in the Christian Home which calls parents and church leaders to reclaim the practice of family worship. To encourage Cedar families to build strong family cultures in their own homes, we asked […]

Introduction to Latin

While reading Washington Irving’s book, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., the 3rd and 4th graders came across the phrase terra incognita. A student asked what it means, but already knew half its meaning since he knew that terra, a vocabulary word they learned in their first year of Latin at Cedar, means “earth” or “land.” Why do we teach […]

Count the Cost, Part IV: Failure

Count the Cost is a blog series designed for prospective parents. In our fourth installment, we asked Miss Katherine Bradford about how a classical school’s high standards inevitably mean that students will deal with failure. (Spoiler Alert: We think that is a good thing.) Katie was a founding teacher at Oakdale Academy in Waterford Township […]

Introduction to Singapore Math

At Cedar Classical Academy, we teach mathematics in a way that is very different from the way you were likely taught. American math curricula tend to show a pre-solved example equation, explain the steps that were taken to solve it, and then assign a number of similar problems. The student solves these problems by copying […]

Count the Cost, Part III: Tiny School

Count the Cost is a blog series designed for prospective parents. In our third installment, we asked the Poortenga family about the steep costs of pioneering at such a small school community in which each family plays a major part in shaping the school culture. The Poortengas co-founded Trinitas Classical School, a Michigan K-8 classical […]