Augustine Christian Academy open house

Augustine Christian Academy, Tulsa's pioneering classical Christian college preparatory school, is holding an open house for grades K-12 tomorrow, Friday, March 3, 2023, from 4 pm to 7 pm. The school is located at 6310 E. 30th Street, just west of Sheridan.

ACA was founded as St. Augustine Academy in 1997 and has been a member of the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS) since 2005. ACA is interdenominational, not affiliated with any particular church or denomination, but holds to a broadly evangelical statement of faith, in accord with the historical creeds of Christianity.

Augustine Christian Academy exists to:

• To assist Christian parents in fulfilling the Biblical mandate to educate their children for the glory of God.
• To train young minds to learn, reason, and persuade from a distinctively Christian perspective.
• To examine the world and all human endeavors in the light of Holy Scripture.
• To provide for the development of all staff members for the purpose of achieving our educational goals.
• To be used of God to reclaim our culture for His Kingdom and Glory.

ACA's open house will be followed at 7 p.m. by the school's "Little Theater," a series of short performances by the show choir and the Intro to Theater, Advanced Acting, and Pre-Professional Acting classes. The main event of the evening will be a one-act play, The Diary of Anne Frank, presented by the Advanced Acting and Pre-Professional Acting students. ACA has a strong performing arts department, founded by the late Gale Post and headed by professional stage veteran Dawn Redden. This 15-minute interview with Mrs. Redden captures the standard of excellence that characterizes ACA academics as well as performances and also the love and Christian faith that ACA teachers bring to the classroom.

All three of our children have been ACA students and have been blessed and challenged by the experience.

There are a number of distinctives that set ACA apart from its peer schools. To name just a few:

A house system brings students across the schools of Dialectic (6-8) and Rhetoric (9-12) into four houses for service opportunities and intramural competition, including ACA's unique sport, Grailball.

Weekly chapel services bring the school together for praise and worship, and monthly "Salt and Light" chapels introduce students to Christians living out their faith in a variety of vocations.

For homeschool families seeking enrichment opportunities, ACA offers part-time status for grades 6-12. A homeschooler can take one or more classes and also participate in the school's theatrical and musical productions, house competitions, and special events alongside full-time students.

ACA's after-care program accommodates the needs of working parents who can't be available for pickup right as the school day ends.

ACA sponsors tours for juniors and seniors in alternating years to the East Coast to visit important places in American history and to Israel to see the places where the events of the Bible happened and the sweep of 4,000 years of successive cultures and empires.

Augustine Christian Academy is enrolling students for the 2023-2024 school year. You can learn about the admissions process, see the student and parent handbook, and look at this year's class schedule on the ACA Admissions page.

ACA is also hiring teachers who want to teach in a classical and Christian environment. Interested applicants are encouraged to send a cover letter and resume to John Ahrens, Headmaster, by April 1, 2023.