19255 N. McLeod Way, Boise, ID 83714
info@idahonovus.org
(208) 297-5417
19255 N. McLeod Way, Boise, ID 83714info@idahonovus.org(208) 297-5417A tuition-free, public, American classical charter school in Eagle, Idaho. Serving grades K-8 during the 2026-2027 school year and adding a grade each year until K-12 is served. Idaho Novus Classical Academy is a Hillsdale College K-12 Member School.
We provide a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences. Liberal is derived from the Latin word libertas, meaning freedom, and this an education befitting citizens of a free nation.
We introduce students to America's founding documents early and build a strong foundation in American government to prepare the next generation for the responsibilities of citizenship.
An American classical education emphasizes the pursuit of truth, which can be discovered through careful study of our literary, philosophic, historic, and artistic inheritance.
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12th Sep, 2026 
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
For more information, email ptca@idahonovus.org.
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14th Sep, 2026
8:45 am - 9:45 am
For more information, email ptca@idahonovus.org.
Read More >Our mission is to train the minds and improve the hearts of students through a classical, content-rich curriculum that emphasizes virtuous living, traditional learning, and civic responsibility.
Our vision is to form future citizens who uphold the ideals of our country’s founding and promote the continuation of our American experiment—through a classical, great books curriculum designed to engage the student in the highest matters and the deepest questions of truth, justice, virtue, and beauty.
Idaho Novus Classical Academy partners with families to provide students with an American classical education. We are a Hillsdale College K-12 Member School and part of the American Classical Schools of Idaho Federation. We are working to restore a traditional American public education that focuses on training the minds and improving the hearts of students. The importance of our mission can be understood through the following statement from George Washington’s Inaugural Address in 1789:
“I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my Country can inspire: since there is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness, between duty and advantage, between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity…”
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Have you signed up for Parent-Teacher Conferences yet? If you have not signed up already, please take a moment to open September’s edition of The See more
Mrs. Patten greets a student with a smile and a courteous handshake. At Idaho Novus Classical Academy, all of our elementary teachers start the day See more
Students at Idaho Novus Classical Academy receive instruction in history, theory, and practice in the fine arts from K-12th grade. We consider the fine arts See more
As we plan to expand our Upper School into the high school grades next year, we’re already beginning to hire outstanding faculty to help shape See more
Idaho Novus Classical Academy is pleased to offer a Cross Country program right here in the beautiful foothills of Avimor with its hundreds of miles See more
We partner with families to form citizens of knowledge and virtue through a classical, content-rich curriculum rooted in the liberal arts, American founding principles, and See more
The first full week of school is well underway and it’s great to see students, faculty, staff, and families back together at Idaho Novus Classical See more
New York Times bestselling author and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax visited Novus last week and gave a talk to families titled Evidence-Based Parenting. This See more
The Idaho Novus Parent-Teacher-Community Association invites you to their first restaurant fundraiser of the year!
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