Lehigh Valley Christian High School (LVCHS) is a private

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...

, parochial

Parochial school

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, high school

High school

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 located in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania

Catasauqua, Pennsylvania

Catasauqua is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, settled in 1805 and chartered as a borough in 1853. Catasauqua is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state....

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History

LVCHS was established in 1988 as a cooperative among three Lehigh Valley, Christian elementary schools -- Bethlehem Christian School, Lehigh Christian Academy, and Phillipsburg Christian Academy -- desiring a continuation of their education style from the ninth to the twelfth grades.

Student body

While located in and drawing students from Allentown, the students of LVCHS also come from other municipalities in the Lehigh Valley

Lehigh Valley

The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and...

 region of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 and western New Jersey

New Jersey

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The current enrollment is less than 200.

Accreditation and memberships

Lehigh Valley Christian High School has earned accreditation from both the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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 and 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...

, the latter of which the School is also a member. LVCHS is also a member of Mid-Atlantic Christian School Association.

Athletics

LVCHS competes in District XI

PIAA District 11

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 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association

Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association

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. The Cougars field teams in boys and girls soccer, field hockey, girls volleyball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, baseball, and track and field.