Whitefield Academy is a private school in the Highview area of Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

 that was founded in 1976 as Highview Baptist Christian School, and originally taught students grades K-8. In 1988, a high school was added and the name changed to simply Highview Baptist Schol. In 2003, Highview Baptist School changed the school's name to Whitefield Academy, named after the English evangelist George Whitefield. Today students range from grades pre-school to 12th, and the total enrollment from pre-school to high school is approximately 800 students. The school is also 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...

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Mission Statement

The mission of Whitefield Academy is to serve Christian families by providing a Christ-centered, Biblically-based education marked by academic excellence and spiritual vitality.

Administration

• High School Principal - Jacob Saltsman
• Middle School Principal / Dean of Students - Bruce Jacobson
• Elementary Principal - Susan Kunsman

Athletic programs

Whitefield Academy offers soccer, 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...

, 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...

, 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....

, 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...

, swimming

Swimming (sport)

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, 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...

, 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...

, 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...

, tennis

Tennis

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, and chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

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Veteran's Day Ceremony

For 13 years, Whitefield has hosted an annual Veteran's Day Ceremony, which is put on each year by the junior class and commemorates current and former veterans in a celebration consisting of color guards, choir concerts, guest speakers, and dramatic representations. In addition to a program, veterans are also served breakfast and are given letters from the students. Whitefield Academy's Veteran's Day Ceremony is one of the largest in the Louisville region.

For 2010, Whitefield Academy was privileged to host a launch-off for the 2011 Medal of Honor Association Convention, which will be held in Louisville for 2011. Medal of Honor recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams, who fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima, was the guest speaker at the assembly, and he is one of the very few living Medal of Honor recipients from World War II in the country.