Schaeffer Academy follows the Trivium, a method of instruction first used in medieval times.  Its three stages (Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric) correspond to a child's developmental stages.  By the Upper School years (grades 9-12), our students progress to learning rhetoric, the persuasive use of ideas and argumentation relating to a subject.  The rhetoric stage incorporates all that has been learned in the previous years of grammar and logic-based study of the core subjects of math, history, language, literature, science, theology, history, music and art.