Christ School Academic Overview
While Christ School prepares you for the most competitive colleges in the nation, our challenging curriculum also prepares you for adult life. For this reason, we provide individualized attention and an environment designed to help you learn. We offer small but demanding classes that help you develop critical thinking, research, analytical, and writing skills. We also offer 34 honors level and 18 Advanced Placement courses to give you an opportunity to perform at the highest possible level.
You might sometimes need extra help. We've got it. If you need more, we've got learning labs and tutorials. We offer enrichment courses, short courses in architecture, ethnic cooking, music, and life skills that will enhance your self-discovery. And when you're ready to move on, our college guidance program will help you take your place in the institution of your choice.
Our mission is not just to educate you, but to help you discover who you really are. In our classrooms you'll find out how much you can discover about yourself by discovering the world around you.
Multimedia Experiences from the Classrooms
Mr. Fagen's Physics class' studies of alternative energy included pulling apart an internal combustion engine and building a bicycle-powered electric generator. Students also explored the mechanics of a helicopter and created a creamer cannon.
Check out more photographs from the physics and chemistry students' experiments in the Media Gallery.
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Mr. Clapper's chemistry students' experiments range from 'Marshmallow Man in a Vacuum' to 'Biodiesel Production'. Alumnus and current parent Tom Mackie '80 brought his hot air balloon to campus and the boys explored how it flies.
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The Video Production and Animation class creates innovative broadcast media, including installments of the "Christ School News".
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Global Learning
Christ School's Global Studies Program remains committed to exposing its students to international cultures, history, and politics. A component of the curriculum invites prominent people for all walks of life to speak to students and to interact with them in their classrooms. In 2009, Christ School hosted Paul Rusesabagina, the humanitarian whose actions during the genocide in Rwanda were depicted in the 2004 award-winning film Hotel Rwanda. Mr. Rusesabagina is credited with saving 1,268 civilians from slaughter during the 1994 Rwandan civil war. Headmaster Paul Krieger said, "Any time we can have world notables share their narratives and engage our students, the world benefits." Another speaker was former Vietnam POW, General Porter Halyburton, who visited campus for both formal and informal interactions with the Christ School community and the general public. Christ School opens these programs to the general public.
Also in 2009, Christ School history teacher, Ben Dowling, led 20 faculty and students while they traveled to Kenya to work at a rural school and build a community library. Read more about how the trip ahs created awareness outside the students' personal experiences and forged an ongoing relationship between Christ School and the local Kenyan community.
Accreditation
Read the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS) Accreditation Report for Christ School.
