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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. I hope you find it helpful. If you have any sugges- tions, please let us know. 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.

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