ANNUAL REPORT 2018/2019 TrinitySchools TRUTH .BEAUTY GOODNESS. 2 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

6 WHO WE ARE

8 OUR SCHOOLS

10 STUDENTS & ALUMNI WE SERVE

12 MEET OUR BOARD

14 STEWARDSHIP OF OUR MISSION

16 GRATITUDE

18 RIVER RIDGE CAMPUS

2018 / 2019 Trinity Schools 3 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

WITH ALUMNI FROM THREE CAMPUSES, 2,370 STUDENTS ARE IN THE WORLD AS TRINITY SCHOOL GRADUATES.

4 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 Dear Parents, Alumni, and Friends of Trinity School,

For nearly forty years, Trinity Schools has been offering excellence in education with one clear mission: to train students to be of use to God in the wise care and governance of his creation and in the building of his kingdom by establishing a culture marked by the discovery of truth, the practice of goodness, the creation of beauty, and the development of intellectual and aesthetic habits of mind.

With alumni from three campuses, 2,370 students have gone into the world as Trinity School graduates. They serve as doctors, lawyers, priests and pastors, engineers, homemakers, educators, missionaries, and in hundreds of other ways.

For the last several years, we have been working to bolster our communications with the launch of new web sites for each campus, the creation of Veritas Journal, an online journal of education and human awakening, and several other initiatives.

This newest tool for keeping you informed will be regularly published with content common to all three of our schools as well as content specific to each of our campuses. This first issue also serves as our annual report, featuring an overview of our schools’ history, new initiatives that we have undertaken, a budget report, and a word on our national board.

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In Christ, Jon Balsbaugh President The answers to these questions became the Trinity School curriculum. The mathematics and sciences that have shaped our world, the history and political WHO theory that have brought us to where we are now, and great works of philosophy and literature—we believe all students should encounter these things.

And the way we chose to educate is as important as the curriculum. We believe that education ought to WE be about awakening, awakening minds and souls to the pursuit of truth, the creation of beauty and the practice of goodness. In fact, we believe that genuine learning only happens when we encounter reality in this way.

In the years since our founding, we have become a ARE national leader in education. Trinity schools have been awarded an astonishing ten blue ribbon awards for excellence from the United States Department In 1981 Trinity School opened its first campus, Trinity of Education. We are widely recognized as early School at Greenlawn in South Bend, IN. Two schools pioneers of what would come to be known as the followed. Trinity School at River Ridge in Eagan, MN classical education movement. And our curriculum opened in 1987 and Trinity School at Meadow View and philosophy of education have served as the in Falls Church, VA held its first classes in the fall of explicit model for dozens of private and charter 1998. From the beginning, it was clear that Trinity schools in the United States. would provide not only a different kind of education, but also a different understanding of what it means We are honored by this legacy and continue to to be educated. measure our own success by the kind of young men and women our graduates become. At Trinity School, Early on, the founders realized that it would not students become articulate, educated, and inquisitive be enough to simply take the existing template for agents of their own learning. They are well-rounded, education and try to improve upon it. In order to dynamic young men and women who we are proud to create a genuinely different education, they knew go out into the world as Trinity graduates. they would have to start from a different foundation.

So instead of merely asking how to “do school” better, the founders of the school began instead with the desired outcome and asked, “What should educated adults in our time really know? What intellectual skills should they possess to deal with the world in which they find themselves? What topics and texts should they have wrestled with?”

6 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 TO US, THE REAL MEASURE OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS IS SEEN IN OUR GRADUATES. AT TRINITY SCHOOL, STUDENTS BECOME ARTICULATE, EDUCATED AND INQUISITIVE AGENTS OF THEIR OWN LEARNING. OUR ALUMNI ARE WELL-ROUNDED, DYNAMIC MEN AND WOMEN. WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE THEM GO OUT INTO THE WORLD AS TRINITY GRADUATES. OUR SCHOOLS

SHARING OUR GIFTS

The Trinity Schools curriculum has been adopted by over thirty private and charter schools nationwide serving nearly 20,000 students.

OUR MEMBER SCHOOLS

In 2014, Trinity Schools began a fresh initiative in national education—the Trinity Member School Program. In partnership with the Wilberforce School in Princeton, NJ and Trinity Academy in Portland, OR, Trinity Schools provides curriculum, teacher training and ongoing development to independent, like-minded schools.

8 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 248 STUDENTS

TRINITY AT GREENLAWN

SOUTH BEND

275 STUDENTS

TRINITY AT RIVER RIDGE EAGAN (suburb of Minneapolis)

152 STUDENTS TRINITY AT MEADOW VIEW FALLS CHURCH (just outside DC)

2018 / 2019 Trinity Schools 9 STUDENTS AND ALUMNI WE SERVE

TRINITY SCHOOLS TOTAL ENROLLMENT TRINITY AT GREENLAWN

TRINITY AT RIVER RIDGE

TRINITY AT MEADOW VIEW

10 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 ONE OF OUR HIGHEST GOALS IS TO PRESERVE AND ENCOURAGE EACH STUDENT’S SENSE OF WONDER. OUR EFFORTS TO ASK HELPFUL QUESTIONS AND THEIR GROWING ABILITY TO FORMULATE THEIR OWN GREAT QUESTIONS LEADS TO INSIGHTFUL CONVER- SATIONS AND DEEPER UNDERSTANDING. TRINITY SCHOOL ALUMNI AND STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO LOOK DEEPLY INTO THE WORLD AROUND THEM.

TRINITY SCHOOLS TOTAL ALUMNI

2018 / 2019 Trinity Schools 11 Craig Lent, Chair Ph.D. Physics, University of Minnesota, B.S., Physics MEET University of California, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering and concurrent Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame

Jon Balsbaugh (ex officio) M.A. English, University of St. Thomas, President, OUR Trinity Schools Dan Brewer J.D. Golden Gate University - School of Law, Direc- tor of Human Resources and Financial Aid, Trinity Schools (retired)

BOARD Beth Bulger M.A. English, University of Minnesota, B.A. in English, Carleton University, Freelance Editor, Bulger Editing Trinity Schools are operated jointly and governed by a national board of trustees. Our board is responsible Johanna Clark for overseeing the mission and vision of the schools as Ph.D. Pharmacology, Georgetown University, B.S. in well as the financial security of the schools. Chemistry, St. Mary's College, Head of School, Trinity Academy Our board members come from many walks of life. They are professionals with expertise in law, education, Larry Lamanna business and the sciences. Many are parents of B.A. in Theology and Liberal Studies, University of current students or alumni. Each brings wisdom and Notre Dame, M.A. in International Relations, Yale experience to the management of the schools. Our University, Ph.D. in Political Science and Interna- board meets three times a year to engage in board tional Affairs, University of Georgia development, explore new and ongoing strategic initiatives, and review and approve the budget. Laurie Magill B.A. in the Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, Former Faculty and Administrator at Greenlawn and Meadow View campuses

Kevin Ranaghan Ph.D. Theology, University of Notre Dame, Chairman, Branch Relations Council, People of Praise

Walt Seale M.A. Teaching Writing and Literature and M.F.A. Creative Writing, George Mason University, Coordinator, Indianapolis, Campus Division, People of Praise

12 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 ATHLETICS COMPLEMENT THE CLASSROOM AND THE VIBRANCY OF THE SCHOOL’S CHRISTIAN CULTURE, AS WELL AS PROVIDE A FORUM THAT ENHANCES OUR STUDENTS’ CHARACTER AND DEVELOPMENT. STEWARDSHIP OF OUR MISSION

Trinity Schools operates a single budget for the In order to support a project or need at a local campus, nonprofit corporation. With input from local heads of Trinity Schools offer a wide range of ways in which schools, the president presents a budget incorporating donors and generous benefactors can partner with us- each of the operating expenses of the three schools financially, including restricted donations. All schol and the expenses of the central office to the Board of arship donations are distributed locally, all capital Trustees for approval. campaigns are local, and we have a wide variety of ongoing initiatives at each campus. The Director of The work of the central office involves curriculum Development at each local campus works with our development, teacher training, branding and benefactors to find a method of giving to the school messaging, and other similar functions that are held that honors and maintains the intentions of those in common by all Trinity Schools. Moreover, a wide benefactors. variety of practical financial matters such as payroll, insurance negotiations, and reimbursements are handled centrally to support the schools.

The budget for the central office represents approximately 6% of the overall budget of Trinity Schools annually.

14 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 TRINITY SCHOOLS 2018-2019 SUMMARY OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

STEWARDSHIP OF Public Funds OPERATING REVENUE

Tuition and Fees $ 9,818,786 Scholarship and Restricted Giving $ 871,841 OUR MISSION Public Funds $ 300,298 Annual Giving $ 142,670 Investment Income $ 120,000 Other (misc gifts, affiliate fees, $ 79,677 etc.) $ 11,333,272 TOTAL

OPERATIONAL EXPENSES

Salary and Benefi ts (all faculty and staff) $ 5,728,653 Unfunded Financial Aid $ 1,783,123 General Operating Expenses $ 1,439,615 Buildings and Grounds $ 1,324,103 Offi ce of the President $ 730,000 Funded Financial Aid $ 315,000

TOTAL $ 11,320,494

2018 / 2019 Trinity Schools 15 GRATITUDE

The Heads of School, faculty, and professional staff at Additionally, members of each school community each campus are extremely grateful for the amazing contribute generous financial gifts at all levels. This generosity of so many dedicated partners and engaged annual support enables each campus to respond to members of Trinity Schools’ community of learners. several important areas of need including unfunded student financial aid, faculty recruitment and devel- Trinity Schools’ mission to form its students is only opment, and classroom enhancements. Generous possible through the generous partnership it enjoys benefactors also make possible improvements to the with current student families, alumni parents, academic and athletic facilities. All of these efforts alumni, grandparents, benefactors, and supportive continually work to enrich the experience of the friends in each campus community. It begins with Trinity Schools mission for our students, families, and thousands of volunteer hours that support all manner partners. of activities throughout the academic year. From the performing arts and sporting events to student field trips and extracurricular activities to communi- ty-building gatherings of all kinds, volunteers enhance and strengthen each campus’ school community.

Trinity Schools also benefits greatly from the varied professional expertise of its parents and alumni who contribute to both the academic and operational life of each school campus. Many partners step forward each year to make a variety of contributions. These TRINITY PROVIDES include faculty members at local universities offering A CAREFULLY-CRAFTED guest lectures, advisors for a mock trial team or a CURRICULUM. READING robotics team, and coaches for athletic teams as well as those who sit on committees both formal and GREAT LITERATURE, STUDYING informal supporting strategic, financial, and devel- GEOGRAPHY, CREATING MUSIC opment goals at each campus. AND ART, AND STUDYING CALCULUS-BASED PHYSICS ARE JUST SOME OF THE WAYS THAT TRINITY STUDENTS ENCOUNTER REALITY.

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2018 / 2019 Trinity Schools 17 RIVER RIDGE CAMPUS

NATIONAL RECOGNITION

On September 26, 2019, Trinity School at River Ridge This moment served as an opportunity to remind was named a National Blue Ribbon School with the ourselves that the stuff of our ordinary days — solving designation of Exemplary High Performing School. problems, preparing for the Christmas concert, and We received this honor previously, in 1996 and 2008, conducting Humane Letters seminars — is the living making us the only high school in Minnesota to out of our extraordinary vision for education, and receive the honor three times. 45 minutes after the that this mission is made possible by the Department of Education announcement, bells rang community of families and friends that supports to end fourth period early, and students, faculty and and sustains our community of learners. We staff headed to the auditorium. The excitement was celebrated with an all school picture and cupcakes! palpable as students speculated about what the good news might be.

18 Trinity Schools 2018 / 2019 RIVER RIDGE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS

Congratulations to our National Merit Commended Scholars and Finalists! Seven members of the Class of 2020, 14% of its senior class, were recently recognized CAMPUS by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation for their achievement on the PSAT. Cassandra Demlow, Erik Iverson, Charles Nykamp, Abigail Walter, and Carl Yaeger earned the honor of being named Commended Scholars by scoring in the top 3% of the 1.5 million students who took the PSAT nationwide. Erik runs with Trinity’s cross country and track teams. Charles is Program Captain of the Robotics team, and sings in Chamber Singers; Cassie, Abigail, and Carl are musicians in Wind Ensemble. Abigail is a photog- rapher for the yearbook, and Carl leads the Speech Club. Finalists Luke Bormann and Kate Mealey scored in the top 0.5% in Minnesota. Luke is a three-sport athlete and a member of Chamber Singers. Kate is a yearbook editor and participates on the Robotics team as a CADD designer. Congratulations to each of these students.

AT TRINITY SCHOOL, ALL STUDENTS TAKE ART ALL STUDENTS LEARN TO CODE ALL STUDENTS ACT IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY ALL STUDENTS GET RECESS!

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