Veritas Academy is a classical Christian school committed to the Reformed Faith and the classical Trivium. Its central purpose is to bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ by assisting Christian parents in the godly educating of their children.
A lot of prayers and efforts from two different parts of the country went into the founding of Veritas Academy.

In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania a group mainly composed of families that attended Westminster Presbyterian Church were meeting together to prayerfully consider how they should raise up their children in a godly manner. This group was committed to rearing their children in the Reformed Faith, and they were considering different models of Christian education.

One model that they considered was that of classical Christian education. They read through Douglas Wilson’s Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning. This book presented the time-tested method of the Trivium as a superior alternative. Many were excited about this model, but it seemed that starting a school like the one spoken of in Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning was many years away.

At the same time in Orlando, Florida, something was happening that would help the dream of Veritas Academy become a reality more quickly than anyone had hoped. A few years before Veritas Academy opened its doors, another classical Christian school opened. The name of this school was The Geneva School. The father of one of the families that was involved in the formation of The Geneva School was a native of Lancaster County. When Marlin and Laurie Detweiler moved back to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, they brought with them a great desire to see their sons continue to receive the kind of education that they were getting at The Geneva School. They also brought with them a basic “floor plan” for what it took to start a classical Christian school.

Arriving in Lancaster, the Detweilers learned of the Westminster group considering a classical Christian education. Some families from this group, along with families from other churches in the area, joined together to found Veritas Academy.

Veritas Academy opened its doors in the autumn of 1996 with twenty-eight students and three full-time teachers. The school was located at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. This was a year in which teachers (both full time and part-time), volunteers, parents, and board members made great sacrifices in order to insure the future of the school. Since then, the Academy has grown considerably.

In all of the history of Veritas Academy, the Lord has been faithful to uphold and establish this work. Great efforts by many people have aided in the founding and continuance of Veritas, but ultimately all glory and honor must be given to Christ, whose grace has upheld Veritas Academy.