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Great Hearts Academies

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An evisceration of the soul. - Lead Teacher Great Hearts Academies Employee Review

1.0
6 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Students who aspire for greatness.

Cons

What is it like to work at a Great Hearts Academy? You are a block of cheese. A block of cheese placed on the icy-cold desktop of indifference and pedagogy. Then, a Microplane of criticism, judgement and degradation begins to grate you down into a slice of incompressible hopelessness. The Microplane is intended to sever any ounce of empathy, tenderness and joy existing within you. The disconsolate sliver which is left of you is raised up gloriously by administration and then the rejoicing begins— “Here it is!”. This is their antiquated, harrowing system of leadership. You have become a fragment of what you once were in the blessed name of Classical Education. You are sliced down, because they were once sliced down. They are a sliver of who they once were, so you must be, too.

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Great Hearts Academies Response
10mo
We value constructive feedback for our academies. As a public education model, Great Hearts yearns to provide access and community for all students and faculty, and we are disappointed to learn that you have not experienced that sense of community at our academy. We acknowledge that school culture may vary from academy to academy, and as a network, we see the culture as guiding force in its overall adherence to the mission to pursue truth, goodness, and beauty. Please know that your comments are valued and reviewed to help us ever improve in this very human endeavor.

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5.0
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Pros

Intentional and caring work with children.

Cons

Demanding work, but ultimately fulfilling.

3.0
9 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Hard to get fired 2) Lowest monthly premiums for benefits I’ve experienced 3) There are busy and slow seasons. Some times you have far too much work to complete in 40 hours and other times you may only have 20 hours of work

Cons

1) Low pay 2) Leadership could be better mainly HR/People Ops, individuals seemingly put into higher up positions based on tenure at the company rather than job experience. 3) Little to no room for growth in HR/People Ops. 4) No annual review process formal or informal and no raises based on individual merit 5) a standard company wide increase each year is in place but it’s typically 2% so not even an amount that keeps up with the cost of living 6) it can feel cliquey

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Great Hearts Academies Response
2mo
Thank you for your feedback. We will share with our leadership your comments. We strive to set a standard of excellence for our students with a focus on a rich liberal arts curriculum and emphasis on moral formation. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. We have been engaged in ongoing work on this issue for several years despite no significant funding increases from the states in which we operate, and simultaneously we must balance the need to maintain smaller class sizes, robust network resources, and safe and welcoming campuses. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. We have increased our salary ranges in certain regions over the past year. We will continue to work to improve in these areas.
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