After Charlie Kirk’s murder one year ago, the board of Logos School unanimously voted to honor Kirk as publicly and permanently as possible, and they began designing a new track and field complex to be named in his memory.

“Charlie is exactly the kind of man we want our graduates and our staff to honor and emulate. He courageously strove for excellence. He was unafraid of small beginnings and expected big outcomes. He lived his life and eventually died in the public arena, joyfully fighting for truth from a place of gratitude to God for the incredible legacy we’ve received here in America. Charlie lived a life of sacrifice, not just on his last day, but every day, and his faithfulness had a disproportionate impact on the restoration of our decaying culture. All of us are incredibly grateful to him and for him. And we wanted to show that gratitude in a concrete way.”

Douglas Wilson, school founder

Logos School is currently engaged in the construction of a new 30-acre campus for its approximately 700 K–12 students. The school is doing this while striving to improve their already strong educational track record, and to continue to set the bar nationally for what classical, Christian education can accomplish.

In pursuit of the school’s goals, Logos has set a three-fold standard for themselves, ingrained in every student: Gratitude, Sacrifice, Excellence. It was due to the example Charlie Kirk set in all three of those categories that made leaders of the school want to honor his memory.

As part of their new campus, Logos School is releasing preliminary designs for the beautiful track and competition field complex to be named in honor of Charlie Kirk.

“He was competitive in the best ways. And while we want our students to pursue gratitude, sacrifice, and excellence in all things, it’s tough to learn sacrifice in a classroom. Sports aren’t just for fun at Logos. They are where our students learn to lay themselves down for each other, especially when it hurts.”

Joe Casebolt, alumnus and board member

Superintendent of Logos School Matt Whitling is currently spearheading fundraising and construction of the new campus. One academic building has already been completed and named after C. S. Lewis. A second academic building is nearing completion, named for J. R. R. Tolkien.

“Right now, our field is pretty inhospitable. Grass, basic bleachers, and porta potties. No track, no locker rooms, no permanent restrooms. We’re grateful to have a field at all, but now it’s time for us to aim higher. The board wanted a track and field complex that would honor God in its beauty and excellence while being more hospitable to the entire community, and to all of our athletic opponents in the region. When I think about the culture of our school, and what we want our students to aspire to, there is no better example than Charlie’s, and no one we would rather memorialize with a competition complex like this one.”

Matt Whitling, superintendent

From eighteen students

In 1981, when Logos School first opened its doors to a mere 18 students, founding board members Douglas Wilson, Shirley Quist, and Larry Lucas were more focused on educating their own children than starting a national movement.

“We had kids. And we wanted to give them the same kind of rigorous, classical, and Christian education that the founders of this country once received. On one hand, we were thinking local. On the other, we really were praying for the Restoration of America while taking small steps in that direction.”

Douglas Wilson

An educational movement was born. Logos modeled its classical and Christian curricular structure and pedagogy on the ancient trivium. In response to national interest, Douglas Wilson then wrote a bestselling book called Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning and founded the Association of Classical and Christian Schools (ACCS).

Downstream from the Logos experiment, there are now more than 10,000 classical and Christian institutions in the United States. Taken together with homeschooling services like Classical Conversations and classical online schools, countless American students have now received and are receiving classical and Christian education. Colleges have been founded. Others, like Hillsdale, have created programs specific to classical education.

“God loves to take small beginnings and bless them with disproportionate impact. We have experienced some of that here in Moscow and in the classical education movement. But Charlie, as just one faithful and diligent man, was incredibly used by God both politically and culturally. His life may have been cut short, but his impact will continue beyond what we can measure. Even up here in the panhandle of Idaho.”

Douglas Wilson