Welcome to Athenaeum of Central Mississippi (ACM) Homeschooling Program! We are so excited to share with you about our program and would love to begin this journey alongside you! ACM has been the cultivation of many years of consideration and thought put to the fire by a swift need for a new homeschooling program in the Jackson Metro for the 2024-’25 school year. ACM will focus on the arts and electives as well as gifted education and academics. Our goal and focus is to cultivate creativity and ingenuity in your child(ren).
“Non scholae sed vitae discimus” means we learn not for school, but for life and is a perfect slogan for ACM!
Our focus is to bring to you a 2 day a week program on Mondays and Wednesdays between the hours of 8:30am-2:00pm that will breathe life into your child(ren). Calendar for the 2025-2026 school year will be published soon.
Dr. Rebecca Mullican received her PhD in Special Education in May 2012 and her BCBA in May 2017. Dr. Mullican has classroom experience with students kindergarten through graduate school as a teacher and professor since 2002. Dr. Mullican is passionate about homeschooling, working with students who have neurodivergence, twice exceptional, and gifted students. She worked in multiple schools that were passionate about the arts being included in education and continued with this passion with her own children.
Our goal at ACM is to bring a new program to the greater Jackson area that will focus on arts, gifted education, electives, and academics in such a meaningful, life changing way for students.
At the Athenaeum of Central Mississippi, we see time as a gift: the extra time we have with our families, the time we have to study the arts, the time to be creative, and the time to immerse ourselves in projects that are meaningful to our students. This is why we will not assign a lot of school work for the days that students are at home. As homeschoolers, students should be engaged in a variety of activities outside the classroom which include field trips, nature studies, projects of students’ own choice, travel, extra family time, as well as whatever other values are important to each family.
Students at ACM will be involved in a variety of elective and academic classes with a thirty minute lunch break. Approaches used in the classroom will be child-centered and follow European pedagogy. Families will have three days a week at home to focus on any academics that they feel their child needs additional work in or that is not covered in their coursework at school.
Dr. Rebecca Mullican is the executive director and creator of Athenaeum of Central Mississippi.
Mrs. Dixie Gray is a Visionary leader, bridge builder and licensed educator with a bachelor’s degree coupled with master’s level work in special education and over 30 years’ experience instructing elementary, middle school, and secondary students, securing resources, and implementing effective programs. Certification and background experience include teaching music, theater, marching band, choral arts, reading, language arts, study/life skills, and math. Dedicated to guiding students to succeed while inspiring an insatiable passion for learning. Training and extensive experience in using Orton Gillingham, Lindamood Bell, and Slingerland methods and strategies to maximize the learning potential of non-traditional learners. Completed courses in behavior management, effective classroom management, and evidence based interventions in conjunction with a resident teaching position at a boarding school which served at-risk students.
Athenaeum of Central Mississippi’s target audience for the upcoming school year is grade 1+. We are looking for students who are curious, creative, eager to learn, and love a challenge!
Please explore our website, sign up for a Zoom interest meeting, share with your friends, and register your child(ren). We can not wait to serve our community with this unique program!
There is a $20 per student pre-registration and processing fee. Tuition is $4000 yearly per student and a $250 registration fee per family. Please note that if, for any reason, your child is unable to finish out the school year, you are still financially responsible for the full school year’s tuition. We use your payment commitment to guarantee our teachers’ salaries, rental contracts and liability insurance contract for the school year. Your submission of the online registration form is acceptance of this financial commitment.
6712 Old Canton Rd #5, Ridgeland, MS 39157