Welcome to Great Hearts Cicero Prep, Serving Grades 6-12
Cicero Prep is a public charter school serving grades 6-12, guiding students from the first steps of middle school through the culminating challenges of high-school honors seminars. Named for the Roman orator who believed that eloquence must always answer to virtue, Cicero Prep invites young men and women to cultivate clear minds, great hearts, and a lifelong appetite for Truth, Goodness, and Beauty—Verum, Pulchrum, Bonum.
Virtual Tour
Begin your journey into the heart of classical education with just a click. Watch a virtual tour of Cicero Prep where we foster virtuous scholars and deep thinkers. Witness firsthand how our teachers inspire a passion for lifelong learning, logic, and moral integrity. This isn't merely a tour of our school; it's a gateway to becoming part of a community dedicated to academic excellence and living the values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Discover the unique spirit of Great Hearts—where every lesson shapes well-rounded, virtuous citizens.
Why Families Choose Cicero Prep
Mission-Driven Excellence
Everything we do points back to the pursuit of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Our well-rounded curriculum—literature, mathematics, science, fine arts, and humanities—invites students into the “Great Conversation” of the Western Tradition.
Personal Growth & High Expectations
From free full-day kindergarten through eleventh grade, Socratic dialogue sparks curiosity while clear routines foster both joy and order. Students meet high academic standards and are mentored by teachers who know and love them.
Character at the Core
Courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom guide daily life. The best schools shape hearts as well as minds, forming compassionate young citizens ready to serve their communities.
Academics at Cicero Prep begin in wonder and rise toward mastery.
The journey begins in middle school, where students master Latin declensions, trace Euclid’s first proofs with straightedge and compass, and keep nature journals that catalogue the subtle geometry of palo verde branches. Literature, mathematics, science, history, and beginning Spanish share equal honor on the timetable, because a well-rounded mind must handle words, numbers, and observations with equal grace. Teachers approach these years as gardeners preparing soil: they celebrate careful questions, reward patient revision, and weave short recitations of poetry or scripture into the close of each class so that memory becomes a friend, not a foe.
By high school the curriculum widens into an honors sequence demanding the full measure of a student’s attention. Humane Letters meets two hours every day, pairing primary-source history with great works—from Plutarch to Frederick Douglass—to sharpen moral judgment through dialogue. Mathematics climbs from Algebra II to calculus or statistics; laboratory sciences introduce original texts alongside modern experiments, so that chemistry, physics, and biology reveal both their ancient roots and forward-looking power. Four years of Latin or Spanish culminate in the capacity to read Cicero in the original or converse with ease in a global language. The class of 2024 earned university offers from coast-to-coast liberal-arts colleges, engineering programs, and honors business schools—evidence that a classical path is not a relic but a launchpad.
Yet Cicero Prep refuses to measure success by transcripts alone.
A visitor notices it when eighth-graders rise to greet a guest with firm handshakes and unhurried eye contact. Faculty model it by greeting students each morning, reminding them that courtesy is the beginning of justice. In classrooms the Socratic method wears a cordial face: students learn that the best argument is useless if delivered without humility, and that listening—truly listening—is the first step toward wisdom.
A Welcoming Community for Every Family
Our campus is located right next to Salt River Fields off of Pima and Salt River Way just off of the Loop 101 in the heart of Scottsdale, making the academy accessible to families across Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Phoenix, and Fountain Hills.
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Visit • Apply • Connect
Questions? Give us a call at (480) 424-1790
Start with the virtual tour, then schedule an on-campus tour where you can observe classes, chat with students, and meet faculty. If you share our belief that the best school is one that shapes both intellect and heart, you will find a home here among the Centurions. We look forward to welcoming your family into a tradition that stretches back to Socrates and forward to whatever brave new world our graduates will one day inherit.
With warmest regards,
Christa Reichert,
Headmaster
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