We are preparing to open LEGACY PREPARATORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY starting in the near future.  This has been a vision of Pastor Todd and Pastor Condon's for a very long time and we are announcing it early to start getting the buzz word out.
    Our plan is to start our first year with Kindergarten through 4th Grade and we will be adding additional grades each year extending it through the 12th grade.
    LPCA will utilize one of the best Christ-centered teaching curriculums in the world - Accelerated Christian Education (A.C.E.).  This ministry curriculum was established in 1970 and has grown to educate children in over 125 countries around the world with more than 1,000 schools world-wide.  With this teaching system, no child will ever get left behind educationally regardless of the child's educational level.
    For more information, you may call the school office at 330.644.2134 or you can click here to email us.

   
    LPCA is an outreach ministry of Legacy Church, a non-denominational church pastored by Todd Marshall Hearnsberger. The academy is currently in the works of working out all of the details to open in the near future.  The church also has another school ministry called Noah's Ark Childcare Academy.  The preschool was started on November 9, 1998 and was co-founded by Pastor Todd and his wife, Stephanie.
    Pastor Todd and Stephanie have always had a heart and a love for children and youth.  Pastor Todd will be relying on the expertise of Pastor Dennis B. Condon (pastor emeritus of Legacy) to help get the school up and running with excellence.
In his 30+ years of pastoring, Pastor Condon has started a number of other Christ-centered daycares/preschools, as well as a Christian academy for schoolage children. This same vision for establishing high-quality, Christ-centered child care and education has been applied here at Legacy Church through our Noah's Ark Childcare Academy and our soon-to-come Legacy Prep Christian Academy.
    Our facility gives a warm invitation to parents and students. Plans are already in the works to build a new facility that will house both the preschool and the Christian academy.

    LPCA's educational program will be Christ-centered with the guidance of Christian leaders and teachers.  Doctrinal issues will not be a part of our teaching curriculum.  We view our role as a partnership with the parents to meet each child’s need.
    The Christian school is not a school just merely for the sake of academics, but for the sake of fulfilling the church’s God-ordained role in carrying out the Christian education mandate (Deut. 6:7, Prov. 22:6, II Tim. 3:15-17).  Just as we believe it would be wrong to place our children under the influence of godless teachers, so we believe it would be wrong to place them under the influence of godless, humanistic readers and teaching materials.
    Character training is one of the supreme goals of Christian education.  God says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6).  Children must be trained, line upon line, precept upon precept, day after day.
    To train means to exercise, to discipline, to teach and form by practice.  When a person is trained, it becomes part of his character to do what he has been taught.  It is built into his spirit, and he has to go against his own spirit to do the wrong thing.  Training builds habits that are right, and training must take place all through the day, not merely in a “character lesson” taught once a day or once a week.

    We train our students to do the following:
1. respect authority
2. pay attention
3. obey willingly and immediately
4. apply themselves to the task at hand
5. learn rules and apply them
6. do their best
7. learn to work hard
8. develop habits of orderliness, carefulness, obedience, honesty, accomplishment, cooperation, perseverance, self-control, attentiveness, fairness, confidence, responsibility, effort, steadfastness, discipline, endurance, helpfulness, neatness, patience, judgment, and respect.
    It is not enough to simply talk about doing right.  We will provide an orderly, organized classroom where working hard and doing right are the accepted standards.  Our students will find it easier to concentrate on the work, and developing character traits will become more natural.

        LPCA will be utilizing a teaching curriculum called Accelerated Christian Education (A.C.E. – also known as “ School of Tomorrow”).  A.C.E. was established in 1970 and to date has over one million students in over 125 countries around the world with the curriculum being taught in over 7,000 schools.
    Its teaching system is completely different from the standard “lock-step” teaching system that is used in most schools today.  Most schools today, including all public school systems, operate in a format where the teacher teaches a group of students, of the same age group, as a one complete unit.  This type of format has the teacher teaching educational concepts through audible and visual means.  When the teacher is forced by time restraints to move to the next learning concept, this forces the entire class to move to the next concept as well, even if some of the students have not mastered the previous concept.  This kind of format leaves “learning gaps” in the student’s overall education.  Not all students, in the same age group, are on the same intellectual level.  The slower learning students get left behind while the faster learning students get bored.
    A.C.E.’s teaching system never leaves a student behind nor does it place a hindrance on the student who learns faster.  Each student works at his/her own pace and is not allowed to move to the next learning concept until they have mastered the current concept.  This teaching philosophy is called “Individualized, Mastery-based Learning”.
    The student is taught learning concepts using PACEs – individualized subjects that are broken down into bite-sized units.  These PACEs teach the student everything they need to know to master that particular concept using pictures, cartoons, and age appropriate wording.  This curriculum places a demand on the student for learning these educational concepts while utilizing the teacher (supervisor) as a tutor when the student needs one-on-one assistance.  Students cannot advance to the next PACE (learning concept) until the student has passed the current PACE – thus eliminating learning gaps in their education and allowing them to learn at their own pace.
    This truly is a different and unique approach to education that has proven to be effective.  With over 36 years of evidence that this style of teaching really works, there is no better way to educate a child.  Graduated students have been accepted by over 900 colleges and universities through America.
    Biblical principles and character traits are strongly woven throughout the curriculum as well.  We do not teach doctrinal issues.

       LPCA will utilize a school uniform system.  Our school colors will be: Navy Blue, Hunter Green, Yellow, and Red.  The students must wear the approved uniform design and parents must purchase the uniforms through Schoolbelles Uniform Company.  Call the school office to get pricing and other details.

Why Uniforms?
    A safe and disciplined learning environment is the first requirement of a good school. Young people who are safe and secure, who learn basic American values and the essentials of good citizenship, are better students. In response to growing levels of violence in our schools, many parents, teachers, and school officials have come to see school uniforms as one positive and creative way to reduce discipline problems and increase school safety.
    They observed that the adoption of school uniform policies can promote school safety, improve discipline, and enhance the learning environment. The potential benefits of school uniforms include:

• decreasing violence and theft -- even life-threatening situations -- among students over designer clothing or expensive sneakers;
• helping prevent gang members from wearing gang colors and insignia at school;
• instilling students with discipline;
• helping parents and students resist peer pressure;
• helping students concentrate on their school work; and
• helping school officials recognize intruders who come to the school.

    As a result, many local communities are deciding to adopt school uniform policies as part of an overall program to improve school safety and discipline. California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia have enacted school uniform regulations. Many large public school systems -- including Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dayton, Detroit, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Miami, Memphis, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, Phoenix, Seattle and St. Louis -- have schools with either voluntary or mandatory uniform policies, mostly in elementary and middle schools. In addition, many private and parochial schools have required uniforms for a number of years. Still other schools have implemented dress codes to encourage a safe environment by, for example, prohibiting clothes with certain language or gang colors.

TUITION:
$2750/year ($275/month for 10 months)
Founders' Special with paid registration through April 30th - $2250/year
($225/month for 10 months.  That's a $50 per month savings!)

PACE/CURRICULUM FEE:
$18/month for 10 months 

REGISTRATION & ENROLLMENT FEE:
$150/annually
(includes diagnostic testing if applicable)