School Profile
Reid Temple Christian Academy
School Overview
Reid Temple Christian Academy (The Academy) is a Christ-centered science and technology focused educational facility. In August 2005, The Academy opened its doors to students in grades Pre-Kindergarten 4 thru Grade 2 with 56 students. Each year thereafter, one academic grade was added. The original plan was to add one grade each year until The Academy reached Grade 8 during the 2011-2012 school year. During the 2008-2009 school year, The Academy decided to not only add Grade 5 but to also add Pre-Kindergarten 2 and Pre-Kindergarten 3. This decision was made because the Academy was finding it very difficult to differentiate for its Pre-Kindergarten 4 students because some students were already reading or well in the pre-reading stages while others did not know their alphabet. These additional students were well received by our community of learners, the additional programs minimized our difficulty differentiating for our Pre-Kindergarten 4 students and the additional revenue provided our school with a needed financial blessing as the economy shifted.
From its inception, The Academy has been committed to providing a holistic Christian education which ministers to the whole child—body, mind, and spirit through the development of biblically based values, promotion of intellectual curiosity, and reinforcement of cultural awareness and social responsibility. We encourage our students to engage in continual self-evaluation and reflection to equip them for life, service to God and commitment to their fellow man. Our students are taught to seek justice, love in kindness and walk humbly with God through their academic, artistic, and moral pursuits.
The Academy has worked tirelessly to provide our students with not just an exceptional educational curriculum but also to provide them with a broad range of opportunities which include Speech Meets, Art Contests, Chess Tournaments, Band, Math Olympics, Spelling Bees, Orchestra, Dance, Mad Science, Choir, Fencing, Basketball, and Archery. The Academy students are also given opportunities to become published authors and illustrators through our partnership with Student Treasures, and to become directors as they create their own digital stories. The Academy is currently completing a MacBook two-year pilot program in our middle school. Each student and teacher in our middle school is provided an Apple MacBook. The Academy provides as many e-textbooks as offered by our selected textbook companies and teachers are required to integrate technology into their lessons three days or more a week. Preliminary results are exciting. Our students are writing more and completing assignments at a higher rate since the inception of our pilot Macbook program.
Every year, The Academy asked students, parents, teachers and staff to join us on an awesome journey of learning. Along this journey, we symbolically asked our students the soul searching question posed by Marianne Williamson, "Who [are you] to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" and our students triumphantly demonstrated Ms. Williamson's answer "...who are we NOT to be? We are children of God. Our playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around us. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."
We have taught our students to expect the best, to do their best, and to see the best in others. They are taking their rightful positions as predestined by God and are truly God's "chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that others may proclaim the praises of Him who called them out of darkness into His marvelous light."
As we continue on our journey and follow the vision given to our Pastor, we know that the best is yet to come. The Academy will continue to reflect and transform ourselves into exactly what our students need to be productive citizen in a changing world. So, we continue on our awesome journey of learning, forging upward and onward to follow our vision of academic excellence.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Association of Christian Schools International Accreditation
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Accreditation
Benefits
Student Discount on Tuition
Tuition Remission