Why Give to TCA?
Update: Year-End Giving Challenge
January 6, 2026
Between November 20 and December 31, the first $55,000 in gifts to TCA's Annual Fund were matched by generous TCA families and friends. Our community came together to secure the match and exceed our overall dollar goal. THANK YOU to everyone who participated!
$55K MATCH
By December 15, 2025, more than $55,000 or 100% of the matching challenge was raised.
$300K OVERALL GOAL
As of January 5, we exceeded our $300,000 goal and currently stand at $313,419. Because mail is not processed over Winter Break, more donations postmarked before December 31 will likely be added to this total over the next week.
PARTICIPATION GOAL
As of January 5, 260 current TCA students' families have participated, out of a goal of 375. That puts us at 69% of our goal. In addition, 156 TCA grandparents or friends have also participated for a total of 416 participants.
Your Generosity Has Purpose Here
As a Colorado Charter School committed to preserving small class size and offering our students a rich, relationship-based education that develops mind, body and spirit, As a registered 501(c)(3), TCA has three distinct purposes for fundraising.
Use the links in each description below to explore further and find your best opportunity to support TCA.
TCA's Annual Fund
Empowers TCA to recruit and retain the best educators by increasing overall staff compensation and building staff culture. Annual Fund fundraising is not something that most public schools do, but it is critical to the success of TCA.
School and Team Fundraising
These are the opportunities most people think of when they think of school fundraising: silent auctions, carnivals, boosters (Titan Club!), restaurant nights, and spirit-wear sales, to name a few. While keeping in mind mission-critical Annual Fund giving, TCA also curates a selection of these more traditional fundraising events to help create an extraordinary community experience for students, families, and staff.
Titans Give!
Exemplary citizens give back to their community and to their world. Titans Give initiatives bring focus to the many student-led philanthropic efforts undertaken by the TCA community.
An Extraordinary Learning Experience
When you give to TCA in any of the ways described above, you are supporting an educational environment that is uniquely effective.
Outcomes are the Overflow
TCA’s founders knew from the beginning that they wanted to create an extraordinary learning environment:
- Though inspired by elite private schools charging $20,000-40,000 in tuition, TCA would be publicly funded and tuition-free.
- In contrast with education trends that exclude parents, TCA would intentionally include parents and support their leadership in raising their own children.
- In pursuit of an education beyond test scores and state assessments, TCA would offer whole-person learning that feeds mind, body, and spirit.
TCA Values
For the first 13 years, TCA values were shaped as they were lived out in the classroom, in the hallways, on the athletic field, and on the performance stage.
In 2010, these values were codified as TCA’s Core Values, stating, “The foremost measure of our success now and in the future is how well we live up to the words of this document, and to a lesser extent by test scores, number of students enrolled, number of students on our waitlist, and other outside measures of success.”
This is a commitment TCA continues to honor each day.
Though test scores and accolades are of secondary importance, they have nonetheless been a consistent outcome of TCA’s educational approach—the overflow of TCA’s commitment to its Core Values.
TCA Rankings
Colorado School Performance Framework Score (2024)
TCA High School: 94.5% (#1 in D20)
TCA College Pathways: 85.9% (#2 in D20)
James Irwin Award of Excellence for exceptional academic achievement over time (2024):
The Classical Academy High School
TCA College Pathways
The Classical Academy Junior High
The Classical Academy Elementary (three elementary schools combined)
U.S. News and World Report (2025)
TCA High School: #1 in District 20, #2 in Colorado Springs, #13 in Colorado, #524 in the U.S.
TCA Jr. High: #5 in District 20, #102 in Colorado.
TCA Elementary: #1 in District 20, #39 in Colorado.
College Pathways: #8 in District 20, #184 in Colorado.
Whenever you support TCA financially, you underwrite our efforts to continue in Excellence with Honor.