About
Legacy Commonwealth Academy

A commonwealth is a once a week school that is owned and operated by the families that run it. Our commonwealth purpose is to inspire all members to live their individual missions, provide educational and social opportunities for our children, and to create friendship and community amongst students and parent mentors. 

Parents play a key part in our commonwealth as parent mentors. It is important that parents have the heart and energy to help build and support the commonwealth through their own continuing education, serving within the commonwealth, mentoring their children, and finding and living their own life mission. Parents are given training opportunities to feel successful in the various mentoring opportunities they are asked to participate in. 

For our commonwealth to work best, and to ensure that new/incoming families have a smooth transition, we require the following:

• Attend our Spring information meeting (May 20) OR go over the information with at least one board member

• Submit a complete application, including reading and agreeing to Legacy's Constitution & Bylaws

• Attend the parent mentor training  (TBD, likely the week of August 19)

• Be a parent mentor/co-mentor

• Interview with Board members

• Read the following titles where applicable (Links can be found here)

  • • Required - All Parents: A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver DeMille

• Required - 12 and Under Parents: For The Love of Learning, Giving Your Children a LOLIPOP Education by Amy Edwards

• Optional - Parents: Phases of Learning by Oliver & Rachel DeMille

• Optional - Tween/Teen Parents & Students: Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens by Oliver DeMille & Shanon Brooks

• Optional - Scholar Students & Parents: Hero Education by Oliver DeMille

• Optional - Parent Mentors: The Student Whisperer by Oliver DeMille & Tiffany Earl

Our commonwealth is NOT a drop off opportunity. Parents are expected and required to be involved in some form. Often parents rotate mentoring and co-mentoring the age groups in which their child is a participant. Sometimes you may be asked to mentor a class that your child is not in. If you are not mentoring during a specific month or time of day, you are not required to be present but you are encouraged to stay so you can get to know other members of our community. At least one parent is required to stay through the morning announcements (about 10-15 minutes) in order to ensure there are no children being left on their own prior to instruction time starting. 

*We are currently not accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year. We will reopen applications once we have spots available.

If you are ready to apply, please use the navigation links to reach our application form. All Applications must be received by June 30. Applicant families will be notified via email if they have been accepted or put on a waitlist. 

If you are not yet ready to apply and would like more information, please reach out using the "Contact" page, or reach out to a commonwealth member that you know. We will happily set up a time for you to meet with 1-2 of our board members so you can ask any questions. 

We understand that you may want to see if our commonwealth is a good fit for your family before committing. In order to avoid instructional time disruptions, we typically do not allow visitors. However, every 4th Monday during the school year, we meet at a local park for a "stay and play" meet-up so interested families can come and meet some of our members (including teens!). During the summer months we try to gather semi-regularly (often to swim) and you are welcome to join us during those times as well. Please reach out using the "Contact" page as well, and we'll get the relevant meet up information to you. 

*Please note that we typically only allow new families to join us at the beginning of a semester when space allows. If you have applied in the middle of a semester please continue to reach out and join us for our meet-ups so we can continue to get to know you.

In order to communicate with everyone in an efficient manner, we utilize the GroupMe app. Once part of the commonwealth, you will be invited to join several groups that pertain to you and your family. We have a dedicated group for announcements pertaining to everyone, including details for calendar events. We also have dedicated groups for each specific class for class specific announcements. It is expected for parents (and students old enough to have technology) to regularly check for updates and announcements. 

As our mentors are mostly parents of our students, we likely do not have mentors specially trained to help with special needs students. We honor and recognize that every student is on their own learning journey. We also recognize that we do not have the tools nor number of supervising adults needed to delegate a mentor to help one on one with a student. Students need to be able to reasonably participate in class activities without the assistance of a dedicated helper unless that helper is provided for by the family (outside of parental mentor obligations).