Memoria Press

Memoria Press describes itself as a family-run publishing company that produces classical Christian education materials for home and private schools. Its Classical Core Curriculum is sold as grade-level sets with a special emphasis on Latin. In our assessment it is also one of the more demanding programs to run at home.

Last updated: 2026-10-15 · Every Homeschool Editorial Team

At a glance

Method	Classical and Christian, with a special emphasis on Latin
Worldview	Christian. The publisher says its products are developed from the perspective of a Christian worldview and calls itself a Christian company; its FAQ says some materials carry explicit references to the faith and to Scripture and others are implicit. The pages we read do not name a denomination
Grades	Preschool through grade 12, per the home page
Formats	Print books and workbooks; streaming video and digital flashcards on some products (for example the First Form Greek Complete Set); live online classes through Memoria Academy
Cost tier	Standard to Premium (see the cost section)
Parent intensity	4
ESA-common	The publisher's pages that we read do not mention ESA programs; confirm with your state program
Accredited	Memoria Academy, which the publisher's About page lists as part of its classical education family, says it is accredited by the Classical Latin School Association (CLSA), which the About page lists as another member of that family. No Memoria Press page we read says the publisher's curriculum is accredited
Website	memoriapress.com

Our scoreboard (1-5)

Criterion	Score	One-line reason
Academic rigor	5	In our assessment, demanding: the publisher's Latin timeline runs from Prima Latina in grade 2 to courses for AP Latin in grade 12
Ease of teaching	2	In our assessment, requires real parent engagement, especially for Latin; live classes are available through Memoria Academy
Content quality	5	In our assessment, coherent across grades; each grade-level package comes with daily lesson plans in a curriculum manual
Flexibility	3	The home page says a family can customize its curriculum package, and the publisher also sells individual products such as its Latin programs; in our assessment, flexibility is moderate because the grade-level sets are organized as one package per grade
Value for money	4	In our assessment, substantive for the price; the Third Grade Curriculum Set is $821.28 (retrieved October 2026)
Worldview scope	2	Developed from a Christian worldview, with faith and Scripture explicit in some materials and implicit in others, per the publisher's FAQ
Visual/design	3	In our assessment, clean and professional rather than visually distinctive
Support resources	4	Live classes through Memoria Academy, streaming video and digital flashcards on some sets, and a knowledge base

Who the publisher is

Memoria Press's About page says Cheryl Lowe founded the company and that it has developed a K-12 classical curriculum at Highlands Latin School in Louisville, Kentucky, where its programs are written and field-tested. The same page describes Highlands Latin School as a private classical Christian school founded by Cheryl Lowe. The page names Cheryl Lowe as the author of the Latin programs Latina Christiana, Lingua Angelica, and the Latin Forms Series, and of The Greek Alphabet, Classical Phonics, First Start Reading, and English Grammar Recitation. The company's mailing address, shown in the footer of its home page, is in Louisville. Its staff page lists Brian Lowe as President.

The About page lists five institutions as members of its "classical education family": Highlands Latin School, Highlands Latin Cottage Schools, Memoria Academy, the Classical Latin School Association (CLSA), and Memoria College. It describes Highlands Latin Cottage Schools as an organization for classical Christian cottage schools in which homeschooled students meet one or two days a week for teacher-led classes and do lessons and homework at home the rest of the week.

The core pedagogy

The home page defines classical education as the cultivation of wisdom and virtue through the study of the liberal arts and the Great Books, with Latin playing a primary role. The Classical Core Curriculum page describes the curriculum as a complete classical Christian curriculum with an early focus on reading, writing, and arithmetic and a special emphasis on Latin. The home page says each grade-level package comes with everything needed for one school year, including daily lesson plans in a curriculum manual.

The publisher's own suggested timelines show how the subjects are staged:

Subject	Publisher's suggested placement
Latin	Grade 2 Prima Latina; grades 3-4 Latina Christiana; grade 5 First Form Latin; grade 6 Second Form; grade 7 Third Form; grade 8 Fourth Form Latin/Henle I; grade 9 Henle II; grade 10 Mueller's Caesar; grade 11 Henle III; grade 12 courses for AP Latin
Classical studies	Grades 3-4 D'Aulaires' Greek Myths; grade 5 Famous Men of Rome; grade 6 Famous Men of the Middle Ages; grade 7 Famous Men of Greece, The Trojan War, and Horatius at the Bridge; grade 8 The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Book of the Ancient Greeks; grade 9 The Aeneid and The Book of the Ancient Romans; grade 10 Greek Tragedies; grade 11 The Divine Comedy
Logic and rhetoric	Traditional Logic I Complete Set is labelled Grades 7+, Traditional Logic II Grades 8+, and Classical Rhetoric Complete Set Grades 9+

On starting Latin, the publisher's FAQ says not to start until the student can read well, usually around second grade, and recommends Prima Latina for students in third grade or younger unless the parent has a strong Latin background. The Latin page labels the First Form Latin sets Grades 5+ (4+ if the student completed Latina Christiana). The math page says the publisher's mathematics program is based on mastery learning that uses memorization and repeated practice in the lower grades.

Signature mechanics: (1) Latin from grade 2 onward, per the Latin timeline above, which the Classical Core page calls a special emphasis. (2) Grade-level sets, sold for preschool through twelfth grade (the Classical Core page lists Preschool through Tenth Grade, and the Eleventh Grade and Twelfth Grade pages each list a Curriculum Set), each with a curriculum manual. (3) Staged classical reading, as set out in the classical studies timeline. (4) Live online classes through Memoria Academy.

What the grade pages list

The publisher describes what it sells for each grade on a grade page, with a note that every Memoria Press curriculum set includes a curriculum manual. By subject, the Third Grade page lists Latina Christiana (Latin), the Third Grade Literature Guide Set, Christian Studies I, English Grammar Recitation I, Rod & Staff Grade 3 Math, the Mammals Set (science), Traditional Spelling III, and New American Cursive 3, along with D'Aulaires' Greek Myths and a Timeline Program under classical studies. The Ninth Grade page lists, among other titles, the Henle Latin Second Year Set, the Ninth Grade Literature Guide Set, Traditional Logic I and II, the Memoria Algebra II Set, Novare General Biology, The Aeneid Set, and The Book of the Ancient Romans Set.

What we think they do well

A staged Latin sequence. In our assessment, the Latin timeline is long and clearly laid out: ten labelled steps from Prima Latina to courses for AP Latin on the publisher's Latin page. The Latin programs are sold individually on that page, so a family can buy Latin alone.

One catalog across subjects. The Third Grade page lists Latin, literature, Christian studies, grammar, math, science, spelling, and penmanship for a single year. In our assessment, a family can buy one grade as a set or pick individual subjects from the same publisher.

Live classes with a stated teacher standard. Memoria Academy says all of its classes are live, real-time audio and video classes, recorded and archived for playback to the students of that class. Its academy profile says all of its 60+ teachers hold a bachelor's degree in the area of instruction or a relevant area and have classroom teaching experience. In our assessment, this gives families a way to hand off a subject such as Latin that they do not want to teach.

What we think they do poorly

A steep ramp for families new to classical education. In our assessment, a parent who did not receive a classical education will spend real time learning the Latin sequence and the reading list well enough to teach it, and families looking for an open-and-go program will find the early Latin years demanding.

Math and science draw on other publishers' titles. The math page lists Rod & Staff Arithmetic for grades 1-7, Memoria Algebra, and other algebra titles, and the science page lists Novare high school texts and Berean Builders sets next to the publisher's nature-study sets. In our assessment, a family using the whole catalog is combining titles from more than one publisher in these two subjects.

The Ninth and Tenth Grade sets carry the highest current prices. The Ninth Grade Curriculum Set is $1,001.40 and the Tenth Grade Curriculum Set is $1,182.48 (see below); the Eleventh Grade Curriculum Set is $656.74 and the Twelfth Grade Curriculum Set is $944.36 (publisher pages, retrieved October 2026), all before any live classes. In our assessment, a family adding Memoria Academy classes will feel the cost.

Who it fits / who it doesn't

• Pick Memoria Press if: you want a classical Christian program with a long Latin sequence; you are willing to teach, or to enroll in live classes for, subjects such as Latin; you want a classical reading list that includes the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy; you want grade-level sets with a daily-planned curriculum manual.

• Skip Memoria Press if: you want a gentle, low-prep program; you are secular or unsure whether a Christian worldview fits your family; you want a single publisher for every subject without third-party titles; you cannot budget for the upper-grade sets or for live classes in subjects you do not teach.

Cost honest assessment

The Classical Core Curriculum page lists these grade-level sets (retrieved October 2026):

Set	Price
Third Grade Curriculum Set	$821.28
Ninth Grade Curriculum Set	$1,001.40
Tenth Grade Curriculum Set	$1,182.48

The Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade pages each also sell a separate Consumable Set (the Third Grade page describes it as consumables for a full year of Third Grade). Memoria Academy's 2026-27 live class list shows full-year courses from $515 to $755 and semester courses from $300 to $695 (it prices short courses, supplements and math labs separately, from $145), while its FAQ says full-year courses generally range from $535 to $735 and semester courses from $300 to $340 (retrieved October 2026).

ESA eligibility notes

The memoriapress.com pages and Memoria Academy pages that we read do not mention education savings accounts or state marketplace approvals, so we do not list any here. A family using an ESA should ask its state program whether Memoria Press and Memoria Academy are approved vendors before ordering, and ask the publisher how it invoices.

Alternatives

• Veritas Press, a family comparing Memoria Press with another publisher's catalog can read our Veritas Press review, which scores it on the same rubric.
• Classical Conversations, a family that wants a local community may prefer it; the organization describes itself as connecting families with a local community and offering a Christ-centered homeschool curriculum rooted in the classical model. Memoria Press's own Highlands Latin Cottage Schools organization also describes students meeting one or two days a week for teacher-led classes.
• Well-Trained Mind Press, a family that wants a history spine from a different publisher can compare it; its home page features The Story of the World, and the press says it creates curricula for home or classroom use.