Coming alongside families through Christ-centered, classical education by training children in wisdom, virtue, and faithfulness.
Mission & Story of Oak Hill
Our Story
Launching Fall 2026
Oak Hill Classical Academy is a new classical, Christian school in Birmingham, Alabama, opening for grades K - 6th in Fall 2026. The seed for Oak Hill was planted in the summer of 2025 when several families in the communities of Homewood, Vestavia, and Hoover felt a stirring from the Lord to establish a school like Oak Hill within those communities. Since then, He has graciously provided for every need and established on firm footing every step of faith.
Our Vision
Nurturing Hearts & Minds
The vision of Oak Hill Classical Academy is to nurture the hearts and minds of students to form them in Christlikeness and prepare them to faithfully follow Him in lives that impact the world by God’s power for God’s glory.
Our motto is to train up difference-makers, culture-shapers, and Christ-imitators. Check out our Founding Vision and Statement of Faith for a deeper dive into who we are!
Our Location
Hub in the Hills
Oak Hill will be located at Hub in the Hills, a non-profit hub at the former location of Vestavia Central Elementary School on Highway 31 (1289 Montgomery Hwy, Vestavia Hills, 35216).
Core Distinctives
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The gospel shapes every element of our school. Academic instruction is rooted in a creation-fall-redemption-restoration framework and points to the unbelievable creativity and endless depth of the wisdom of God. Classroom discipline exists to point children to the holiness and lovingkindness of God, two traits which lead sinning hearts to repentance. The speech of our teachers and staff overflow from hearts that treasure and meditate on the Word of God.
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The trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric provides a well-trodden, rooted tradition of training men and women to think with excellence and agency. Through these specific tools, students are trained to discern and communicate truth and are equipped for the lifelong journey of acquiring wisdom.
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We recognize the limits of what a school can and cannot be, especially a new one! This school will seek simplicity in our programming and will focus on the essential. We seek to leave plentiful room for the family and the local church to be primary shaping influences in the lives of our students. Additionally, we want to guard against the strong pull on parents to make the child the gravitational center of their world by avoiding all-consuming demands on families.
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We want to use technology strategically and to place careful safeguards against anything that undermines focus in the classroom, the joyful creativity of childhood, or the difficult acquisition of a well-trained mind. Specifically, this approach creates a screen-free, “pencil-and-paper” environment in all classroom instruction.
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While we strive to be simple in our structure and programming, the curriculum maintains a high standard of excellence. Academic excellence is not ultimately about producing college superstars but is in response to the tremendous opportunity to steward our miraculous, unique minds to their full potential for the glory of God. We have great expectations for what our students can master and long to see each of them flourish under thorough, rigorous, loving training.
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We strive to come alongside parents by providing a gospel-saturated school environment that reinforces the discipleship provided at home and in church; therefore, to be eligible for admission, a student must be the child of believing parents who are committed to family discipleship and are in regular fellowship with a local congregation. In addition to coming alongside the family as a whole, we pursue the heart and mind of each individual student, recognizing the beauty, uniqueness, and dignity of his personhood, with all the fullness that term imparts. In the classroom, each child is known and loved as an image-bearer of the triune, personal God.