School Profile
Lucas Christian Academy
School Overview
Lucas Christian Academy (LCA) is rooted in the foundational premise that meaningful and positive parental mentoring makes the biggest difference in a child's education. Blending the best attributes of home education and the traditional classroom for over 20 years, LCA students attend classes on campus two or three days per week and complete the remainder of their studies at home under the guidance of their parents.
LCA fosters opportunities for authentic relationship in all its endeavors. Parents agree to become part of the LCA community by attending fellowship, workshops, and community events. LCA partners with parents in Christian community to transform students’ lives through academics, athletics, servant leadership and the arts. Academics at LCA inspire a passion for God’s truth and beauty, to train students to think critically from a biblical framework, and to encourage the virtues of life-long learning.
School History
Established in 2000, Lucas Christian Academy (LCA) is a hybrid-model school with approximately four hundred students in kindergarten through twelfth grades located in Lucas, TX, a suburb community of Dallas. Most students attend classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and are supported at home by parent co-teachers on the remote instruction days. LCA has embraced the motto of building “warriors for Christ,” academically and spiritually equipped to make a difference for God in the world.
The Early Years
In 1998, Lucas Christian Church (now Resonate Church) formed a team to research how to form a school. During this planning phase, a small group of teachers and students began “Classes at Lucas” in August 1999. These classes served the middle school and high school homeschool families of the church and community by providing qualified teachers to teach subject content on one or two days per week, while the students studied at home for the remainder of the week. The classes were tremendously successful and confirmed to the church body that a school of this nature was what God desired.
Through prayer and research, the leadership team discovered the educational model known as university-model schooling in use at Grace Preparatory Academy in Arlington, TX, which LCA emulated. LCA became a charter member of National Association of University-Model Schools (NAUMS) in 2004 and was a pioneer of this hybrid model of schooling.
n February of 2006, LCA became autonomous from the church and began to prayerfully seek God’s plan for a permanent home. In July 2009, LCA purchased the sixteen acres adjoining the church property. In 2010, Kohl’s Department Stores announced the Kohl’s Cares for Kids® Facebook contest. In this contest, the top twenty vote-getting schools in the nation would be awarded $500,000 by Kohl’s. This amount was just more than the $499,000 needed to pay off the sixteen acres LCA had purchased.
“Little school, BIG God!” became LCA’s cry as the Lord opened doors for the school to get votes from all over Texas — at concerts, in restaurants, shopping centers and universities. When the results were tallied, LCA was the number two school in the nation with over 157,000 votes and won $500,000, which was used to pay off the land. On August 9, 2014, LCA moved into its 43,000 square foot school building.