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Tall Oaks Classical School, founded in 1994, provides a Christ-centered, classical education. It includes three stages of age-appropriate K-12 learning discovered over 2000 years ago referred to as the Trivium.

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The best advertisement for Tall Oaks are our students and our graduates. In a recent survey of Delaware area schools, Tall Oaks was among the highest in the three-year SAT average of all schools willing to report their scores.

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Ninety-eight percent of our graduates choose to go on to college and report that they are well prepared for higher education, often more so than their college classmates.

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Education is always taking place, and school activities outside the classroom are every bit as impactful in the lives of students as the instruction they receive in the classroom.

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Whether in morning review, in the classrooms, on sports fields, or at special events, students are engaged and participating. Come and experience Tall Oaks!

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Our goal is to help each person connect gifts—time, talent, and treasure—with their passions by giving for the glory of God.

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Tall Oaks Staff

Nicholas DiDonato

High School History Teacher

A former professor of philosophy, Nicholas C. DiDonato started working at Reach Christian Schools in 2016. After being raised a churchless Evangelical, he converted to Orthodoxy during his graduate studies. Nicholas married Susanne in 2015, and they (currently) have one child: Josephine Joyce. Nicholas enjoys reading and publishing in the intersection of theology, science, and metaphysics, and playing Eurogames, especially Terra Mystica, Concordia, Agricola, and anything designed by Stefan Feld.

Ph.D, Boston University
M.Div, Princeton Theological Seminary
B.S., West Chester University of Pennsylvania