Classical homeschool all-in-one curricula, compared

What this list holds

Classical programs follow the trivium: memory work and facts in the early years, logic and argument in middle school, writing and speaking in high school. History is often taught in order, and Latin is common.

An all-in-one curriculum sells a year as one plan: the subjects, the schedule and the books or lessons that go with them. It saves the work of matching separate programs, and it means one publisher's choices across the board.

Not sure this approach suits your family? The homeschool style quiz asks ten questions about your goals and time and gives a starter week for the closest match.

At a glance

• 3 of the 4 show a price on the publisher's site. For one child and one year of the main package they run from $385.74 to $1,861.90.
• How the child works: 4 books and workbooks.
• Grades: all reach pre-K or kindergarten, all reach the elementary grades, all reach middle school and all reach high school.

Each program in a line

• Classical Conversations: A family that wants a weekly group day with other homeschoolers and a classical memory-work plan, with the parent teaching at home the rest of the week.
• Memoria Press Classical Core Curriculum: A parent who wants a classical, Latin-centered year planned day by day, with the books and teacher guides for every subject in one box.
• My Father's World: A family teaching several children that wants one plan for history, science and the arts, with books, notebooking and hands-on projects.
• Veritas Press: A parent who wants a classical year with scripted lesson plans for each subject, and the choice to hand some subjects to online courses later.

Before you buy

Check the amount of memory work and writing each week, and whether the program expects a weekly group or community day.

Check which subjects are really in the package for your child's grade. Several full curricula leave math or language arts out and expect you to add your own, and science is sometimes a separate purchase.

Most publishers post samples and a placement test; each card links the placement test where the publisher has one.

Side by side

• Classical Conversations vs Memoria Press Classical Core Curriculum
• Memoria Press Classical Core Curriculum vs Veritas Press

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• Homeschool all-in-one curricula for high school 20
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• Charlotte Mason homeschool all-in-one curricula 5
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How we label

Every fact on a card was read on the publisher's own website on the date shown, and the page it came from is linked. A fact we could not confirm there is left out. Costs are for one child and one year of the main package, as the publisher's page showed them that day; prices and sales change. Method and format are the publisher's own description where it gives one. The only thing we say about religion is one label, secular or faith-based, given by the rule above; where the publisher's pages don't settle it, the card has no label.

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