Advantages of an Education at NHCA

Christ-Centered

• "God bathed" curriculum
• Strong Christian commitment in our
  teachers, staff, and parents
• Daily Worship (Grammar)/Weekly
  Chapel (Secondary)
  

Small Class Size

• Average class size is 11 with a
  maximum of 19
• One on one guidance from teachers
• Homeschool Partnership Classes available
• Teachers and staff know all the students
• Low student to teacher ratio
  

Strong Academic Performance (Statistics as of 2003)

• 17% of our graduates are National Merit Scholarship Finalists (only 1% of eligible students nationwide achieve this honor).
• The average SAT score of our graduates is 1206, placing them in the top 25% nationally. (The average 2002 national SAT score was 1020).
• The average ACT score of our graduates is 24.3, placing them in the top 25% nationally.
• North Hills preps students for challenges of college life.
• 100% of NHCA graduates have gone on to colleges or universities.
• 82% of our graduates have received academic scholarships.
  

Intellectually Challenging Curriculum

• Latin – teaches a method of how to learn, basis of Romance Languages
• Logic – teaches how to think and how to use language
  to support arguments
• Rhetoric – teaches how to articulate beliefs and persuasively defend them
• Secondary students often use college level text books
  

Parental Involvement

• Strong family participation
• Families support each other through community
  

Respect

• We teach respect for teachers and peers
• Etiquette class
• Students stand to address adults entering the class
• Pledge of Allegiance said daily at the grammar school
  

Uniforms

• Allows children to focus on their work
• Promotes unity
• Eliminates materialistic competition
• Emphasis on spirituality not external adornment
  

Strict Loving Discipline

• Discipline in a Christ-like manner
• High expectations of good behavior
  

Interdenominational

• Adds richness to our experience of Christianity
• Teaches us to hold our beliefs with a sense of humility
  

Trivium

• Grammar stage – learning the facts through memorization
• Dialectic stage – understanding through analysis,
  logic and reason
• Rhetoric stage – forming opinions and articulating beliefs