American Christian School is a private Christian school in Bartlesville

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Bartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 43,070 at the 2010 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas. It is the county seat of Washington County, in...

, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

, United States. Founded in 1995, the school serves approximately 100 students in kindergarten through twelfth grades.

History

American Christian School was established under the joint sponsorship of Grace Baptist and Westminster Presbyterian churches. The high school program began with a class of 4 ninth grade students in the 1995-1996 school year, meeting in a private home. Classes were moved into the building of Grace Baptist Church the following year and remained there until 1999, when the school began occupying the upstairs of Virginia Avenue Baptist Church. The school expanded to kindergarten through twelfth grade in 2000 and moved into its present location in 2002.

The school is accredited through the Association of Christian Teachers and Schools and recognized by the Oklahoma Private School Accreditation Commission.

Campus

American Christian School has occupied the former Moose Lodge building on Highway 75

U.S. Route 75

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 since November 2002.

Curriculum

The school follows a comprehensive curriculum with an emphasis on Classical Christian education

Classical Christian education

Classical Christian education is an approach to learning which emphasizes biblical teachings and incorporates a teaching model known as the Trivium, consisting of three parts: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. According to Douglas Wilson, this method of instruction was developed by early Christians as...

. Latin

Latin

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 is offered at the elementary level and Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 in high school. Logic

Logic

In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...

 and rhetoric

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...

 are offered from eighth grade through high school.

Speech and debate is offered as an elective beginning in sixth grade. The school's speech and debate team won the 3A state championship title in 2008 and 2009.

Extracurricular activities

American Christian School student-athletes play, if enough people sign up, basketball, volleyball, and 8-man football with Wesleyan Christian School. Students can co-op with Bartlesville High School

Bartlesville High School

Bartlesville High School is a public high school located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Built in 1939, it was originally called College High School, and until 1950 housed a junior college as well as the high school. Its Streamline Moderne building was designed by Tulsa architect John Duncan...

for soccer, baseball and swimming.