Read deeply. Think clearly.
Students need the foundations that last: language, math, history, science, geography, memory, attention, and clear expression.
70+ years • Columbia, SC • 2K–8
A quietly rigorous school culture.
Classical learning habits, close classroom attention, academic rigor, family partnership, and tools kept in their place.
70+ yearsFounded 1954
Teacher-ledHuman instruction
Classical habitsRead, reason, express
Modern toolsAugment learning
Culture
Classic learning habits, propelled for American leadership.
The culture is intentionally old-school where it should be: respect, effort, literacy, numeracy, memory, discipline, manners, and responsibility. It is modern where it helps children create, research, practice, and prepare.
Strengths become a plan.
The goal is to see what each child does well, then build judgment, problem-solving, resilience, and the confidence to act.
More doors open earlier.
Academics, STEAM, arts, athletics, language, service, and leadership give students room to discover gifts and mature them.
Technology in its place
Technology belongs in service of learning.
A strong school is adults, standards, books, conversation, practice, challenge, safety, and care. Digital tools have a place when they deepen practice, expand discovery, or help students create — not when they displace teachers or attention.
“Modern tools, classical habits, human judgment.”
Formation
Prepared for the next school — and life beyond it.
Timmerman’s culture should be felt in how students are greeted, corrected, challenged, encouraged, and known. Academic growth matters because it forms confidence. So do morals, empathy, safety, friendship, courage, and the ability to handle difficulty.
Strengths are noticed early.
Children are watched closely enough for their gifts, temperament, and needs to become part of the plan.
Thinking becomes intentional.
Students learn to plan, ask better questions, solve problems, recover from mistakes, and make thoughtful choices.
Exposure widens possibility.
A broad school life — academics, STEAM, arts, athletics, language, service, and leadership — gives ability room to emerge.
Belonging gives courage.
Empathy and clear expectations create the safety students need to stretch, speak, try, and grow.
What families should feel
A school with standards and warmth.
Families should feel that the school is quietly serious: nurturing without being soft, modern without losing its foundations, and ambitious without forgetting childhood.
Rigor with care
Expectations are high because children are capable, and support is close because children are still growing.
Empathy with order
Students learn kindness, respect, and accountability inside a calm school culture.
Confidence with humility
The ideal graduate is prepared, thoughtful, well-spoken, useful, and ready for the next classroom — and the next season of life.
Leadership
A school-family led with continuity.
Deep roots matter when a school is preparing children for what comes next.
L. Jordan serves as Principal of Timmerman School, carrying forward a long Columbia school tradition shaped by generations of families, teachers, and students. The leadership message is practical and personal: parents, faculty, and staff work as partners in education so each child can travel the road to success.
L. JordanPrincipal
Since 1954Deep roots
70+ yearsLearning legacy
The principal’s welcome emphasizes relevant, rigorous, stimulating academic experiences; real-world applications; relationship-building; future leadership; academic and athletic excellence; and a happy, nurturing environment where families are welcome to communicate openly.