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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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Tall Oaks Staff

Jennifer Rippon

Upper School Science Teacher/ESL Teacher

Jennifer Rippon has been teaching at Tall Oaks since 2010. She enjoys teaching science, coaching the Science Olympiad teams, and helping the international students at Tall Oaks. Jennifer grew up in a Christian family in Lancaster, PA. She met her husband, Stephen, while serving in a student ministry at the University of Delaware. Jennifer and Stephen have three children at Tall Oaks. In her free time, Jennifer enjoys reading, cooking, camping, and taking cross-country road trips with her family.

Degrees:
B.A., Biological Sciences, University of Delaware (1995)
M.Ed., Science Curriculum and Instruction, University of Delaware (1998)
M.A., Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Delaware (1998)

Courses: General Science, Biology, Chemistry, English as a Second Language