Fellowship Christian School
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Fellowship Christian School is stationed in Roswell, Georgia. It is a small private school
located on Woodstock Road off of Highway 92. Neighboring Fellowship Christian is Roswell High School and Blessed Trinity Catholic High School
. The uniqueness of Fellowship Christian is its Biblical foundation. The school's primary goals are to introduce Biblical truths, and help their students in whole-person development. As of 2010, Fellowship Christian School has more than 600 students, and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
(SACS), the Association of Christian Schools International
(ACSI), and the Georgia Accrediting Commission
(GAC).
and middle school
. It wasn't until 1993 that Fellowship Christian began offering a high school education. Then a few years later, Fellowship made its last significant upgrade in its short history. That upgrade consisted of an expansion of its Kindergarten program.
, Biology
, Chemistry
, English
, Government
, History
, Math, and Foreign Language
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. Specifically, the high school offers art
, chorus
, yearbook
, media production, and web design
.
, they compete in the Georgia High School Association
, also known as the GHSA. This is Fellowship Christian's fourth year in the GHSA. The GHSA has Fellowship Christian School in Class A, Region 7, Division A. In all sports, their arch-rival is Mount Pisgah Christian. Fellowship's girl soccer is their most historically dominant team lead by Shelby Rae Griffin who has lead the team to greatness with her ability and leadership. Fellowship offers high school baseball
, boys’ and girls’ basketball
, cheerleading
, cross country
, football
, wrestling
, golf
, softball
, boys’ and girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ tennis
, track and field
, and volleyball
. As of 2010, Dr. Hunter Chadwick is the school's Athletic Director
.
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...
located on Woodstock Road off of Highway 92. Neighboring Fellowship Christian is Roswell High School and Blessed Trinity Catholic High School
Blessed Trinity Catholic High School
Blessed Trinity Catholic High School, also known as Blessed Trinity or, informally BT, is an Archdiocesan Catholic high school in Roswell, Georgia, United States, a northern suburb of Atlanta. The school is located near Georgia 400 Exit 7B Roswell/Holcomb Bridge Road...
. The uniqueness of Fellowship Christian is its Biblical foundation. The school's primary goals are to introduce Biblical truths, and help their students in whole-person development. As of 2010, Fellowship Christian School has more than 600 students, and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is one of the six regional accreditation organizations recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation...
(SACS), the Association of Christian Schools International
Association of Christian Schools International
The Association of Christian Schools International is an association of evangelical Protestant Christian schools.-Purposes:ACSI, a protestant association for Christian schools, impacts nearly 23,000 schools and transforms the lives of more than 3.9 million students worldwide...
(ACSI), and the Georgia Accrediting Commission
Georgia Accrediting Commission
The Georgia Accrediting Commission is a nonprofit educational accreditation organization founded in 1904 "to stimulate the schools to achieve and maintain a high level of professional integrity and competence." Its purposes are stated as to provide standards for Georgia's schools and to promote...
(GAC).
History
Fellowship Christian School came into being back in 1986. Initially, it served as an elementaryElementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
and middle school
Middle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
. It wasn't until 1993 that Fellowship Christian began offering a high school education. Then a few years later, Fellowship made its last significant upgrade in its short history. That upgrade consisted of an expansion of its Kindergarten program.
Academics
Fellowship Christian School's main academic goal is to prepare their students for college. Along with that goal, Fellowship Christian tries to integrate Biblical teachings into every academic area. One of their greatest strengths is their AP program. They offer AP classes in ArtArt
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Math, and Foreign Language
Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
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Fine arts
Fellowship Christian School offers a wide variety of fine arts. They provide fine arts for the elementary, middle, and high schoolHigh school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
. Specifically, the high school offers art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, chorus
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
, yearbook
Yearbook
A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually. Virtually all American, Australian and Canadian high schools, most colleges and many elementary and middle schools publish yearbooks...
, media production, and web design
Web design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
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Athletics
Fellowship Christian Paladins participates in athletics at all levels, but for the high schoolHigh school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
, they compete in the Georgia High School Association
Georgia High School Association
The Georgia High School Association governs athletic and club events for member high schools in Georgia, USA. The GHSA is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations. The association comprises 437 public and private high schools...
, also known as the GHSA. This is Fellowship Christian's fourth year in the GHSA. The GHSA has Fellowship Christian School in Class A, Region 7, Division A. In all sports, their arch-rival is Mount Pisgah Christian. Fellowship's girl soccer is their most historically dominant team lead by Shelby Rae Griffin who has lead the team to greatness with her ability and leadership. Fellowship offers high school baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, boys’ and girls’ basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, boys’ and girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, and volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
. As of 2010, Dr. Hunter Chadwick is the school's Athletic Director
Athletic director
An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...
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