Westminster School at Oak Mountain

The Westminster School is a K-12 classical Christian school and is a ministry of Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church (PCA). Founded in 1999 as Oak Mountain Classical School, the school has grown to an enrollment of more than 500 students. The first graduating class matriculated in 2006.

The leadership of Westminster is committed to a thoroughly Christian approach that includes shepherding the heart, training the mind, and nurturing the soul. Whether it be through the curriculum, on the playground, or in day-to-day relationships, we want the gospel of Christ to be preeminent in our community.

Westminster is equally committed to academic quality. We like to say it like this: discipleship and scholarship without one compromising the other. While the curriculum and pace is challenging, we are not a school targeting the academically elite.

Our vision is building Christ’s Kingdom by equipping students with wisdom, virtue, and eloquence. Values are

• FAITH: Westminster believes. We are biblically driven, gospel centered, grace saturated, and theologically reformed.
• COVENANT: Westminster helps. We endeavor to help Christian parents fulfill their God-ordained obligation to educate their children and nurture them to full maturity in the gospel.
• COMMUNITY: Westminster connects. We foster relationships that reflect a united body of Christ as we celebrate diverse gifts, challenges, and victories together.
• SHEPHERDING: Westminster loves. We strive to demonstrate Christ’s love for our students by the way we teach, serve, and live from a whole heart.
• TRADITION: Westminster teaches. We embrace the classical liberal arts concepts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric to cultivate wisdom, virtue, and eloquence in our students.
• STEWARDSHIP: Westminster protects. We are committed to the highest standards of financial responsibility in providing sustainable operations consistent with our mission.
• BEAUTY: Westminster builds. We seek the progress of the Kingdom of God in this world through the pursuit of beauty in all things with a spirit of truth and love.

The elementary years are a crucial time in the training of minds and shepherding of hearts. We are committed to both scholarship and discipleship without one compromising the other. Our desire is for students to rest in the hope of the gospel and have confidence in their identity in Christ as they grow in wisdom and knowledge.

The upper school curriculum assumes the traditional division of the middling years and the more advanced years. In grades 7-8, emphasis is placed mostly upon the acquisition of the basic skills of algebra, reading, writing, grammar, and logic. In grades 9-12, students enter into the more advanced levels of the various subjects. Juniors and seniors research, compose, and present a thesis to their classmates and faculty.

Furthermore, students are not merely taught facts, but they learn the reasoning behind them. In the science and math classes, students are not just taught formulas and how to plug in numbers; but they are taught the reasons that the formulas work and the concepts that drive them. Students also study logic and rhetoric so that they can reason and express themselves well through both speaking and writing.