Dominion’s lower school emphasizes the grammar, or facts, of learning. At this age, students enjoy memorizing a wide variety of information: parts of the human body, the family tree of Greek Mythology, the geography of the world, and the multiplication tables, for instance. Lower school students focus on building a rich foundation of knowledge.
Middle school students are naturally inclined towards argumentation, so our seventh and eighth-grade programs focus upon developing skills such as reasoning and critical thinking. Students learn to process lower school facts in an ordered and well-reasoned manner, and they more readily see connections between subjects.
A student’s Dominion education culminates in the upper school, which centers on mastering the art of rhetoric, or artful expression. As students become more aware of how others view them and concerned with expressing their unique ideas, the upper school equips them to communicate effectively with poise and eloquence.
"God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word."
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Galileo Galilei, 17th-century scientist
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
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Augustine of Hippo, 4th-century theologian
"The things that we love tell us what we are."
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Thomas Aquinas, 13th- century poet, theologian, and philosopher
Oakton Campus (K-6)
Reston Campus (7-12)
