Founded in 1994, Atheneum is an independent co-educational college preparatory school in Anchorage Alaska. Atheneum offers a challenging academic program for students from grades 6 through 12. The program aims to engage students with the most distinguished minds of civilization through the study of great texts. Atheneum graduates are well prepared for higher education and matriculate to the colleges and universities of their choice. Atheneum's mission is to provide young people with the opportunity and means to initiate and develop their own education. Students and faculty discuss original texts of literature, poetry, music, and history; reenact crucial scientific experiments and mathematical demonstrations; strengthen the integrity of body and mind; and travel to destinations celebrated for their historical and cultural significance. Every course of study challenges the students and faculty to consider the principles of their learning and the relevance of these principles to their lives. In this way the program inspires the practice of not only the intellectual virtues, but also personal and civic responsibility: the lifelong refinement of community and self.
