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Classical Charter Schools of America

Tuition-free classical public schools.

Educating over 2,500 students in Leland, Southport, Whiteville and Wilmington, North Carolina.

2025 CLT8 National Rankings

CCS Leland #1

CCS Whiteville #3

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2027–28 school year

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Private-school results. Tuition-free.

Leland and Whiteville: the only public schools in the 2025 CLT8 top 20.

  • 2025 CLT8 Top School in the Nation award medallion
    CCS Whiteville#3 in the nation2025 CLT8
  • 2025 CLT8 Top School in the Nation award medallion
    CCS Leland#1 in the nation2025 CLT8
  • CCS-AmericaSilver Star School2024–2025

CCS by the Numbers

What families pay

$0

CCS-America tuition

No application fee.

vs

$6,200–$36,000

Annual tuition at private schools alongside CCS in the 2025 CLT8 top 20.

  • CCS Southport: 73.1%
  • North Carolina: 55.0%
CCS Southport vs. North Carolina2024–25 End-of-Grade proficiencyBars share a 0 to 100 percent scale.
  • CCS Leland: 66.6%
  • Brunswick County Schools: 54.7%
CCS Leland vs. Brunswick County Schools2024–25 End-of-Grade proficiencyBars share a 0 to 100 percent scale.

17th

If our three K–8 schools
were one district

out of

117

North Carolina
school systems

2024–25

Leland · Southport · Whiteville

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High school readiness

Ready for high school, and ahead of it.

The CLT8 measures high-school readiness in reading, grammar and math. In 2025, two CCS-America K–8 schools ranked first and third in the nation.

2025 CLT8 national rankings

  • #1CCS Leland
  • #3CCS Whiteville
How the credits work

Up to 5 High-school credits before ninth grade

  1. English I
  2. Math I
  3. Earth and Environmental Science
  4. Latin I
  5. Latin II

Offered at Leland, Southport and Whiteville. Placement and completion requirements apply.

See it for yourself

Watch two of our schools in their own videos, and hear what one CCS Leland parent values most.

CCS Leland girls' soccer team posing on the field.

CCS Leland, K–8

The original CCS campus, opened in 2000, in its own video.

CCS Whiteville eighth-grade graduates in caps and gowns.

CCS Whiteville, K–8

Columbus County's nationally ranked classical school, in its own words.

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What Joshua Goodson values most: a classical curriculum taught alongside “honesty, integrity, and respect.”

Joshua Goodson CCS Leland parent From the CCS Leland admissions page.

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CCS Whiteville eighth-grade graduates, 2021. Archive photograph.
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