Just four years ago, Canada’s first and only classical charter school opened with 300 students and about a dozen faculty members.
Today, the Alberta Classical Academy has 1,500 students and 100 teachers across three campuses: two in Calgary and one in Edmonton. Eleventh grade will be added this fall, and 12th in 2027.
The waitlist of students exceeds the current enrollment, as leaders are working diligently to open new campuses and hire more staff.
“We’re trying our best to meet the demand, because we know that parents are desperate for this,” Caylan Ford, the academy’s founder, said in an interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” with Jan Jekielek….