WELCOME!

Thank you for your interest in Hilger Higher Learning. We provide supplemental education, along with many social activities, for homeschool students in the greater Chattanooga area, through a variety of classes based on a Biblical worldview. Our classes are designed to enhance and help the home education process, while you and your child still have the freedom and flexibility home education provides; we are merely a support to what you are doing in the home. The combination of excellent teachers, solid curriculum, wonderful students and a variety of activities (in and out of the classroom) has created a dynamic environment that helps students not only academically and spiritually, but balances them socially as well. We’ve been offering homeschool courses in Chattanooga for 13 years now, and we love serving the Chattanooga homeschool community! If you are homeschooling in Chattanooga or near the Chattanooga area, we invite you to come and experience the reality of the Hilger Higher Learning environment:

1. Excellent curriculum with a Biblical focus
2. College preparatory assessment from qualified teachers
3. Additional healthy accountability to a source outside of the home
4. Stimulating social interaction with high caliber peers

PHILOSOPHY

Higher Learning is led by an administration and qualified teachers committed to supporting your child’s education through a variety of homeschool classes in Chattanooga. It is our goal to reinforce the Biblical values being taught at home while providing a quality education. Although the parent is not the teacher of the courses we offer, the parent maintains authority over their child's learning and is responsible for holding their child accountable for completed assignments and preparing for tests/quizzes/labs. Our teachers simply serve as a support cast for the parents who have chosen to educate their child through the home.

OUR PARTNERSHIP

We believe in the primacy of the parent as educator and the home as the center of education and relationship. We also believe the Lord provides spiritually gifted teachers as a resource to His people. Hilger collaborates with parents to create an educational hybrid which strengthens the homeschool.  Our classes and extra-curricular activities supplement and complement the work of parents in educating their children.  We come alongside families homeschooling in Chattanooga, to serve and support them in the wonderful endeavor of homeschooling.

ABOUT US
Thirteen years ago Carlee Hilger dreamed of teaching science to a group of children who had a desire to study, for the sake of learning. She found this group of children in the homeschool community within the surrounding Chattanooga area. In 1998, Hilger Higher Learning began with 45 students, 4 science classes, and one excited teacher. As more and more homeschool families asked for Chattanooga homeschool classes, Hilger quickly grew while maintaining Biblical integrity and academic excellence. Today Hilger serves more than 250 families through 17 amazing teachers while offering 40+ exciting courses and workshops for elementary, middle and high school students. We also offer a host of extra-curricular activities! Carlee’s dream is still alive and real: teaching motivated students from Christian families with an enthusiasm for learning.

We invite you to peruse our website to learn more about our classes, dedicated faculty, resources, student activities, partnering with parents and other helpful areas. If you are interested in homeschool classes in Chattanooga and have any questions, please free to contact us by phone or via email.  Our phone number and email are located at the bottom of each website page and our teachers' email addresses can be accessed under our faculty and contact us pages.

Special Interest


JANUARY 9 - START OF 2ND SEMESTER CLASSES
Welcome back! Classes have begun for the 2nd semester. We're offering 3 new classes and a middle school writing workshop this semester. The new, semester only (½ credit), classes are Economics, College Composition, and Biblical Worldview. While the college composition class is full and Economics only has 2 more spots left, we still have a few spots in our Biblical Worldview class and Middle School Writing workshop (Feb 6 - March 12). More information for Economics, Biblical Worldview and our Middle School Writing Workshop is available under our “Courses” page on the website. If you are interested in adding any of these new classes, please email Eddy Hilger at hhlearning@comcast.net or call him at 706.956.8344.