The King’s Academy mascot is a lion. We chose this particular animal to represent our school because not only is Christ our King, He is also referred to as the “Lion of Judah” which, according to ancient prophecies as well as the Book of Revelation, references His power and authority to overcome sin and evil when He comes again.
The lion is a symbol of bravery, strength, and courage. Just like in the days of the early church, to be a disciple of Christ is not easy; to stand up for and be proud of our beliefs and our convictions about Jesus is the narrow road taken by few people. At KA, we are proud to be followers of our King.
Our school fight song is “Lions” by Skillet.
King’s Academy does not follow a traditional “grades” structure; rather student groupings reflect a psychological/social-emotional “developmental” level– much like that of a homeschool environment. Based on his or her initial testing assessment, your child will be placed into one of the following “prides” for the duration of his/her age range:
High School students participate in a “tract-like” program structure as they engage in more specific learning concepts tailored to their personal goals and desires for career and life success.
Each student at King’s Academy will work alongside other learners of various ages that are developmentally in the same stage of learning. Most traditional school settings place students in a single grade classroom based on his/her age, yet the child is rarely, if ever, at the normal developmental stage of learning for that specific grade. Unfortunately, most of these students do not learn the skills needed at specific developmental stages before they are moved up to the next “grade” simply because of their age.
Students begin at KA in the “school” most closely aligned with their developmental stage of learning and stay there until they have shown progression in that specific area of development. Skill-based classes such as English Language Arts (ELA) and Math are the only academics where students will typically work independently or with a small group of same-aged students to develop, practice and strengthen their literacy (writing, grammar and spelling), comprehension, and numeracy (math facts and computation) capabilities.
Teachers have a hard time administering lessons to students in a single age classroom because the material is often either too advanced, too boring, too slow, too technical or too basic for individual learners. Students become frustrated, disengaged, feel “dumb”, bored, or get teased for their “smarts” because they are below/above the “normal range” or have already learned the information on their own.
Multi-age classrooms, on the other hand, tend to be more focused on group learning and collaboration with broad concepts that most students in a specific range of development can understand. Students work on their “leveled-skills” work either independently or in small groups.
Watch this video for more information about this unique class structure.
