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Why Study Latin? 20% of HLS Seniors Recognized by National Merit Scholarship Corporation

Highlands Latin School sign sits outside of a building in Louisville, KY

Highlands Latin School would like to congratulate four HLS Class of 2018 seniors being recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for their scores on the 2016 PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Congratulations to Semifinalist Matthew Rouse and to Commended Students Katelyn Miller, Helen Mariah Murdoch, and Maggie Roy. These four seniors join the ranks of many […]

Breaking Good: Organic Chemists on the rise!

What do you get when you mix a room full of brilliant minds, a teacher pushing them to think beyond the textbook, and a bunch of chemicals? Well, in this case you get acetylsalicylic acid – or in laymen’s terms, aspirin. Students are currently in their Stoichiometry Unit, and this lab, commonly done in a […]

Highlands Latin Senior, Maggie Collum, Published in Classical Teacher

Highlands Latin Senior, Maggie Collum, has been published in The Classical Teacher from Memoria Press. Her inspirational college essay was circulated to over 100,000 readers. More importantly, it gained her acceptance into Princeton University. We know you make great sacrifices to give your children a classical education. Read Maggie Collum’s essay Crying to Dream Again, and hopefully it will all seem worth it.

Six HLS students chosen for Governor’s Scholars and two chosen for Governor’s School for the Arts

Congratulations to six Highlands Latin juniors who were accepted to the 2014 Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program. The Governor’s Scholars Program is Kentucky’s most prestigious summer, liberal arts program for rising seniors. The HLS students accepted are Spencer Henderson, Matthew Zolla, Logan Crum, Lauren Petrey, Andrew Thibaudeau, and Alexander Perdue. We would like to congratulate Ed Boomershine and Andrew […]

Gymnasium Plans for Spring Meadows Campus

Preliminary plans for the new Highlands Latin gym at Spring Meadows are below.  The gym can be used as a single high school basketball court with seating for up to 600 or two side by side elementary school courts. We will also stripe several volleyball courts.  The construction of the building is brick with limestone trim and the interior will […]

New Baseball Field at Highlands Latin School

Highlands Latin hosted its first baseball game April 12th on our new field at Spring Meadows.   The team played well, and it was a beautiful spring day for a baseball game.  Construction of this field involved hauling in nearly 1000 truck loads of fill dirt, blasting hundreds of yards of rock into a hillside, and building back a stone amphitheater.  The […]

Highlands Latin 12th Grade Multicopter Competition

Objective: Build a multicopter from individual components using a programmable board (e.g. arduino) and complete a series of tasks for points. The team with the most points wins. Each team of 12th graders will receive an $850 budget to purchase components for constructing a multicopter. Starting with a DIY kit such as 3DR-Y6 from 3drobotics.com or […]

Twenty-Eight Highlands Latin Students Recite Horatius at the Bridge

Twenty-Eight HLS Sixth Graders Recited all 70 Stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge. Sixth graders at Highlands Latin School learn 24 stanzas of Horatius at the Bridge. Those students seeking Horatius-like glory volunteer to memorize all 70 stanzas, a task involving months of daily practice and great perseverance. This year 28 students rose to the challenge and […]

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