For information on Fort Caspar Academy click on the specific item below.

School Handbook 2009-2010 handbook click here

Fort Caspar Academy 2009 Bylaws 2009 bylaws click here

EXEMPTION REQUEST FEBRUARY 2008 Exemption Request to Natrona County School District

Fort Caspar Philosophy

Parents are empowered to make decisions and accept the responsibility to work as partners with the school.
A rigorous, content-specific, sequential curriculum
Language arts taught by use of the Spalding method (explicit phonics)
Saxon Math
The Core Knowledge sequence used in social studies
Exposure to quality literature
High expectations for all students
Character development
Highly structured, supportive learning environment
Dress code policy

Fort Caspar Academy is a Core Knowledge school that also utilizes the Spalding Reading Method and Saxon Mathematics.

"Schools need to have a coherent, cumulative core curriculum which instills consensus values such as civic duty, honesty, diligence, perseverance, respect, kindness, and independent-mindedness; which gives students step-by-step mastery of content knowledge in civics, science, teachers, schools, and parents accountable for acceptable progress in achieving these specific year-by-year goals. "

E.D. Hirsch Jr. Author and Educator

"Mainstream research has shown that if children . . . all children, not just the privileged . . . are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization."

E. D. Hirsh, Jr. Author & Educator

"Reformers should bear two principles in mind: First of all, they should not lose faith in the power of education to expand the learner's intelligence and life chances.... Second, they should be flexible about educational methods and unbending about ends.... It is an absence of purpose, not a failure of technique, that has brought American education to its present state of embarrassment."

Diane Ravitch, Education Reform Advocate

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Sir Isaac Newton