High Point Christian Academy (HPCA) is a private school in High Point, North Carolina

High Point, North Carolina

High Point is a city located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. As of 2010 the city had a total population of 104,371, according to the US Census Bureau. High Point is currently the eighth-largest municipality in North Carolina....

 serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. HPCA is a member of 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), Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools (SBACS) and Triad Association of Non-Public Schools (TANP).

Mission statement

High Point Christian Academy is committed to Christ-centered, quality education and academic excellence in partnership with family and church within a loving, caring atmosphere. The elementary school is led by principal Rita Haire. Scott Prohaska is the principal of the middle school. Mike Cliff is the principal of the high school.

History

Founded by the Green Street Baptist Church, High Point Christian Academy opened in August 1996 with 96 students in kindergarten through third grade. One grade was added per year which made the first graduating class the class of 2006. The school had added its high school program with the 2002-2003 school year. There are now well over 800 students in attendance.

Campus

High Point Christian Academy is located on the campus of Green Street Baptist Church. The facilities are state-of-the-art and well maintained. TK-8th grade is located in one building and 9-12 is in a separate building.

Athletics

High Point Christian Academy fields teams in 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...

, 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

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, 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

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, 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....

, soccer, 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...

, swimming

Swimming (sport)

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, tennis

Tennis

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, track

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...

. The Cougars field 31 competitive athletic teams in these 12 different sports and compete at the 3A level in the Piedmont Athletic Conference of Independent Schools (PACIS) and North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association (NCISAA).

The first teams in the school's history were the boys and girls basketball teams, which began in the 1999-2000 winter season.

The Cougars have won 5 state championships to date in Girls Volleyball, Boys Swimming (twice), Girls Swimming, and Boys Baseball.

Fine arts

High Point Christian Academy also contains a fine arts program which includes art, band, drama, publications and chorus.

Clubs

The clubs at HPCA include Math Club, Robotics Club, Technology Club, Beta Club, National Honor Society

National Honor Society

The National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...

, Red Cross Club, Interact Club, Drama, Chess Club, Women's Ensemble and Jazz Band.

Curriculum

Certified teachers lead the challenging academic program, utilizing a variety of textbook

Textbook

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 resources in the teaching of Math, Science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, Language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

, Reading

Reading (process)

Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the intention of constructing or deriving meaning . It is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas...

, Spelling

Spelling

Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters...

, Social Studies

Social studies

Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...

 and Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

. Integration of Scripture takes place across the curriculum as Biblical principles are applied to everyday learning. Additional areas of study include 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....

, Computers, Physical Education

Physical education

Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

, Music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, Foreign Language

Foreign language

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, and Library

Library

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The textbooks used are from A-Beka, ACSI, Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary, MacMillan

Macmillan Publishers

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/McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill

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, and Bob Jones

BJU Press

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Advanced Placement

In the 2010-2011 school year, some high school students took Advanced Placement exams in the following categories:

AP Calculus AB

AP Chemistry

AP Chemistry

Advanced Placement Chemistry is a course and examination offered by the College Board as a part of the Advanced Placement Program to give American and Canadian high school students the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and earn college-level credit.-The course:AP Chemistry is a course...

AP English Language and Composition

AP English Language and Composition

Advanced Placement English Language and Composition is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program....

AP English Literature and Composition

AP English Literature and Composition

Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program.-The Course:This course is designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an...

AP Environmental Science

AP Environmental Science

Advanced Placement Environmental Science is a course offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program to high school students interested in the environmental and natural sciences...

AP European History

AP European History

Advanced Placement European History is a course and examination offered by the College Board through the Advanced Placement Program...

AP Statistics

AP Statistics

Advanced Placement Statistics is a college-level high school statistics course offered in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program...

AP US History