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OLGH meets twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Fridays, between 8.45am and noon at St. Patrick's Church Arcola. Every third Friday families using the Catholic School House curriculum meet to review memory work. Every 1st Thursday there is an optional nature study/hike.

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OLGH is open to everyone, but our classes and community focus is specifically Catholic. 

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This depends on the number of students you are enrolling and the types of projects our students will be doing that year. We also share the cost of the website and insurance.

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OLGH meets twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Fridays, between 8.45am and noon at St. Patrick's Church Arcola.

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Please visit our What to Expect page and scroll down to "Class Descriptions" to see a detailed list of the classes offered at OLGH.

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No, OLGH is not a drop-off program. With community being a primary focus, it's very important to us that parents stay on campus. Further, we need all hands to help our co-op run smoothly!

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OLGH doesn't adhere to any particular homeschooling method. We have families in our group who use structured curricula such as Seton, others who use more classical curricula such as Memoria Press or Kolbe, others who use Catholic Heritage, Catholic Schoolhouse, others a mix, and still others who unschool. The main focus of our group is not the curriculum, but the family, and the community that we can offer each other.

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The OLGH Homeschool Co-op is a community of devout Catholic families who are united in their desire to provide their children (of all ages) with a faith-centered and authentically Catholic co-op where they can learn and develop healthy and holy friendships with peers who share the same Catholic values. We understand parents to be the primary educators of their children, and we recognize that families’ academic needs change over time. Accordingly, our vision is to form a community that remains constant in spite of changing academic needs by focusing on relationships, faith, and supplemental subject areas which can only be done outside of the home or make sense to do as a group. OLGH is a true co-op, meaning that the program is not a drop-off program. A parent or caregiver is expected to attend every meeting and to contribute in a meaningful way so that the work required to provide this program is as evenly shared as possible.

We understand that education is not singularly academic, but involves the formation of the whole person. With this in mind, OLGH co-op strives to provide families (including parents) with opportunities either during co-op meetings our outside of regular meeting times for socializing and recreation, practicing prayer, learning about Catholic devotions and saints, exploring nature, and performing service.