Knox founders, Mr. McReynolds’ and his wife, Heather, began exploring education options available here in the Rogue Valley eleven years ago when her oldest son was only one year old. At the time, she couldn’t really put in words what she wanted but when she happened upon the website of a nearby classical Christian school in Roseburg, Geneva Academy, she and her husband, Ben, experienced a quick and massive redirection in life. The vibrantly traditionalist and academically deep vision that steered this Christian school was unlike any they had ever seen. They were immediately aware that they had found something far more important than just an education option; they had stumbled upon a reason for hope in our time.

Over the course of a few months and with the addition of a few friends and families, they had decided that they were going to start a school and they quickly received their first donation to begin the process of incorporating as a non-profit organization.

Knox Academy opened its doors eight years ago to a classroom of three kindergarten students. A pastor on our board had remodeled the back room in his church building, and we began there at Family Life Church and even grew to four students during that first school year! And for us at that time, it felt like growth. Since then, we have grown and at one time had a student body of 89 students and a faculty of sixteen. We have moved several times to allow for this growth, sharing space with several ministries in the Rogue Valley.

Today Knox is located in the “old school” building adjacent to Cornerstone Christian Church on N Bartlett in Medford. The building is has space for our kindergarteners through sixth graders with classrooms on the 1st floor and our upper school students, grades 7 - 12, occupying the 2nd floor along with our library and fellowship hall. We have a great office space, teacher's lounge, coffee nook, pastor's office, and cafeteria. Over the years we have enjoyed many institutional milestones including graduating our first senior, starting a concert band, doing our first high school stage play and our first spelling bee, staffing our first office, and taking on a full-time head of school. In our new facility we look forward to continuing the Knox traditions that will continue the founder’s original vision by providing programs that will promote Classical Christian education in the Rogue Valley.

The classical Christian education movement is turning many heads today, as well it should.

Recently, a study was conducted by Notre Dame to measure and compare the lifestyle outcomes of different education options available today. Classical Christian schools, some of which are now educating 3rd generations, had graduated enough students to participate in this study, and the data produced in this survey was astonishingly encouraging, revealing several areas in which classical Christian education graduates were clear leaders. According to this Cardus study, graduates were more prepared for academic achievement, ranked higher in their ability to think independently, and had a better outlook on life. Even more importantly, they retained not only their conservative and traditional values, but also their Christian beliefs as evidenced in a lifestyle of Christian practices. And finally, they ranked higher as societal influencers, an aim that any institution committed to the Christian worldview in our postmodern age should believe essential.

As Christians, we have much ground to regain in our failing civilization, and we have little time to lose as our most precious resource, our children, are the primary target of those who would destroy us.

A couple of years ago, the ACCS, the Association of Classical Christian Schools, of which Knox Academy is a member, collaborated with Pete Hegseth of Fox Nation to produce "The Miseducation of America", an illuminating history of the development of the American educational system as we know it. This series follows the decline of education from the early 1900s, providing evidence that the "paideia" that governed education all through Chrystendom, a paideia rooted in classical literature and Christian theology, had been replaced through Enlightenment thinking, industrialisation, and mass immigration, with purposes that no longer aligned with those that built our civilization. Instead of leading students to discover truth, the very concept of absolute truth was gradually rejected and undermined. No longer were students' affections being trained toward goodness, at least not a "goodness" shared with that of our ancestors. And the appreciation and creation of beauty was jettisoned in the interest of efficiency and eventually rebellious individualism. The study of Latin, logic, rhetoric, and philosophy were spurned and relocated to specialized degrees at colleges and universities. leaving several generations of Americans with little, if any, thoughtful defense against the influences of progressivism in our era. The series ends with a powerful plea to parents to enroll their children into classical Christian schools.