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2018 Grammar School Plays

Elementary school students pose in greek costumes

Every year the HLS grammar school students look forward to performing their spring plays: “The Banquet of the Gods” by 3rd grade, “Famous Men of Rome” by 4th grade, and “Robin Hood and His Merry Men” by 5th grade.

2017 Highlands Latin School Christmas Cantata Videos

Students sing at the Highlands Latin school Christmas Cantata

Every year, family and friends look forward to the HLS Christmas Cantatas. Under the direction of Dr. Louie Bailey, Mrs. Rhonda Hibdon, and Mrs. Jennifer Gilcreast, the HLS student choirs tell the Christmas story with scriptures and song. Highlands Latin Upper School Cantata Please enjoy our other cantatas below: Images of the Upper School Cantata […]

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 […]

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