Classical schoolroom with wooden desks and warm afternoon light

Primary & Secondary

Osage School

A K-12 school for the children of the ecosystem. Classical liberal arts, the Wah-Zha-Zhe language, and a working STEM track. Small cohorts; honest grades.

Admissions Curriculum

Primary & Secondary

Osage School

A K-12 school for the children of the Osage ecosystem and the neighbourhoods around it. Classical liberal arts, the Wah-Zha-Zhe language from kindergarten, and a working STEM track. Small cohorts; honest grades. Tuition assistance through the Osage Foundation.

Admissions Curriculum Boarding

Mandate

Osage School is the primary and secondary faculty of the ecosystem. The mandate is straightforward: educate children in small cohorts, on a classical liberal-arts curriculum, with the Wah-Zha-Zhe language carried from kindergarten and a working STEM track from the middle school onwards. Honest grades. No standardised-test theatre. The unit of account is the student’s work, not the school’s reputation.

The school is structurally small. Class sizes are bounded; faculty teach across the curriculum rather than within narrow specialisations; the parent body is on the campus by default. Students who finish here read deeply, write clearly, do arithmetic in their heads, and know a language their grandparents would recognise.

Curriculum

Classical liberal arts

Language (English; a second modern language from grade four), mathematics, history, the natural sciences, music, and the body. Reading lists are published; primary sources are read in full; the senior thesis is presented orally before the graduating class.

Wah-Zha-Zhe language

The Wah-Zha-Zhe language is offered from kindergarten in cooperation with the Daposka Ahnkodapi immersion programme. Students who continue through the upper school complete a working competence and a documented language project before graduation.

STEM track

A working STEM track from the middle school onwards — mathematics through calculus, the laboratory sciences, computer programming taught on standard tooling. Senior projects are mentored by faculty at Osage Academy and Osage University where appropriate.

The body

A standing programme in field, ranch, and trail work appropriate to the season, taught alongside the academic curriculum. Cooperative work with Osage Farm on the land-stewardship side of the school year.

Boarding

A small boarding option is available in Osage County, Oklahoma, for upper-school students whose families are seated outside the immediate catchment. Houses are limited and run on standing terms; placement is by reference and on the same identity diligence as the rest of the ecosystem.

Tuition & admissions

Limited admissions. Small cohorts at each grade. Applications open in January for the following academic year.
Tuition assistance. Tinker Scholar bursaries cover tuition in full for qualifying Native American students, administered through the Osage Foundation.
Sliding scale. Ecosystem-member families are billed on a published sliding scale; no family pays more than the published cap for any individual year.
Identity diligence. Enrolment runs through osage.id for parent and student records.

What we will not do

We do not teach to a standardised test. We do not run a parallel honours track for paying families. We do not put screens between a child and the work. We do not pretend that children educate themselves through devices. We do not award marks the student’s work did not earn.

Engagement

The school is the first step of the longest classical pipeline in North America: the school feeds Osage Academy (vocational and professional training) and Osage University (research and higher learning). Inquiries from families are welcomed in writing.