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Great Hearts Academies

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2.0
Feb 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Students are great. Location is great.

Cons

Culture, leadership, long hours, no pay whatsoever.

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Great Hearts Academies Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your concerns. We believe the best for our students includes having the best faculty working with our students and parents. We believe our curriculum provides the best liberal arts classical education focused on character education and great books. We have worked to improve our salary schedules across our networks. Great Hearts does provide excellent benefits (medical, dental, etc.), with employee premiums that are significantly below the national and regional averages. As of the 2024-2025 school year, we have increased the salaries of our current and new teachers. We will look at our benefits package to look for areas to continue to improve. We will continue to work to improve salaries again for the 2025-2026 school year. We know with the rising cost of living, it is important that we make sure our teachers get the very best. We have recently updated our salary schedules again for the incoming 2025-2026 school year to improve the compensation package for our teachers in order to remain more competitive to local district schools.

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5.0
Jun 29, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Intentional and caring work with children.

Cons

Demanding work, but ultimately fulfilling.

3.0
Apr 9, 2026
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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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