Welcome

Pinnacle Classical Academy is a tuition free public charter school in Cleveland County! The school will offer K–6 education in the Fall of 2013, adding an additional grade level each year, with the goal of K–12. The 2013-14 enrollment period has officially closed however if you would like to complete an initial application for your child and be added to the wait list and our mailing list, you can find the initial application here.

Pinnacle Classical Academy will be located at 900 South Post Road in Shelby. This will be the school’s home for the 2013-14 and the 2014-15 school years. The plan for a permanent home is to construct a new K-12 campus on Joe’s Lake Road, about one mile from the South Post Road location.

At Pinnacle Classical Academy, it is our goal to develop caring, productive citizens who exemplify ethical values throughout their daily lives. Integrated into all aspects of the academic curriculum will be the accepted patterns for developing lifelong learners and globally competitive students. PCA will focus on incorporating elements of classical education, STEM, and best practices in education to aid students in developing critical and logical reasoning skills. The early grades will concentrate on essential facts and images needed to prepare them for the dialectic stage of learning as middle school students and finally to equip them to become skillful communicators as high school students, both through writing and speaking.