•Christian school for 30 years

•Charter-like structure

•Christian-based academic curriculum (A Beka)

•Phonics-based reading and spelling

•High academic standards

•Stanford Achievement Tests used to validate academic success

•Parent participation

•Affordable tuition

•Minimum day (Pre-Kindergarten MWF and TTh, K-8th M-F)

•Weekly chapel gathering where classes host the meeting

•Average class size of 12

•Ministry of Community Christian Church

Overview
Community Christian School includes pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. We are a parent participation school emphasizing many of the values of home schooling while functioning in a traditional classroom setting for daily instruction. We operate our program Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30 a.m and 12:15 p.m. The minimum day provides time for families to participate in other enrichment and family activities. All parents who enroll their children in CCS are required to be Christians, affiliated with a local Christian congregation, who can affirm our Statement of Faith. We have been operating with this structure since 1977.

History
Community Christian School was founded in 1977 as an extension of the families of Community Christian Church. From our beginning until now we have maintained that children are not only born into a family and nurtured in a family, but that it is God’s intention that families have the primary responsibility to educate children. Since a child’s academic formation is central to the development of knowledge, critical thinking, and the maturation of character, our conviction is that handing any of these primary parenting responsibilities off to any other organization undermines God’s intention and purpose of creating the family. Our goal as a ministry of Community Christian Church is to provide parents a place, guidelines, and biblically based curricula to facilitate educating children.

Philosophy of Education
CCS holds to the biblical exhortation that “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” The Apostle Paul says that in “Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Col. 2:3) He also says that, “all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.” (Col. 1:16) We believe anything less that this comprehensive view of "everything" to be insufficient grounds for the growth, nurture, education and development of a child. We reject affective or non-directive philosophies of parenting and education. These progressive models hold that children left to themselves with minimal parental “interference” and adult direction are far better off, morally, psychologically, and intellectually. A biblical view of "everything" can not embrace such notions.

Parent Participation
The classroom teachers at CCS are parents of enrolled students whose giftings and education lend themselves to classroom instruction. Parents who are not gifted for classroom instruction serve in other ways at the school site. Each family is asked to give a minimum of two mornings per week at the facility. Exceptions are made for families who have babies or toddlers. Participation at CCS’s school site is not limited to mothers. Fathers with compatible work schedules both assist and teach in the classrooms each year. For over our three decades our parent/teacher approach has produced outstanding results.