New Private School Coming to County

Christian Covenant Academy, a new K-12 private school, will open campuses in Schulenburg and Weimar this fall.

President and CEO Michelle Davis said the school will offer a rigorous academic program rooted in Biblical Christianity. Davis has 25 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in both public and private schools.

“The ultimate purpose of our school is to offer a Biblebased worldview,” Davis said. “That doesn’t mean we’re not teaching the classics. Of course, they’re still learning geometry and physics and all of those things. But first, it’s with the understanding that math makes sense because God is the God of Order.

“Creation was created with a pattern and a plan by a divine creator, which is why science makes sense and why we have scientific laws.”

Davis said she believes the new school will attract families dissatisfied with secular teachings and culture of public schools.

“There are things going on in public education, out there in the world, you haven’t seen it a whole lot in Small Town, Texas, but you see it in the news – a lot of indoctrination, gender confusion,” she said. “There are people in other states desperate to pull their kids out of public education. Unless you can pay to go to a big private school and pay big tuition, you are stuck. God put it in my heart: we’re going to make Christian education affordable to families who don’t have other options.”

Davis said tuition at Christian Covenant Academy will be $5,000 per year per student. Families can pay monthly installments. In addition, Davis said she’s hopeful the State Legislature will soon pass a private school voucher program, which will allow the school to accept state tax dollars for families who take their children out of public school.

“We’re going to break free of worksheets and reproducibles, and focus on authentic student engagement, which students actually love more than sitting behind a stack of worksheets,” she said. “We want students thinking, questioning, grappling and debating – Socratic seminars – those great teaching principals, and some of them come from Classical education. But we’re not just classical. We’re going to use flip instruction and technology, and bringing in the best of all instruction in an affordable package so anyone can do it, as long as they agree to our statement of faith.”

Davis said the school will be accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International.

“We’re providing the same high school standards that a student would have at any other high school,” she said.

She said the school will also offer dual-credit college courses to high school students through a partnership with Houghton University, a Christian university located in New York.

“Our students will take the SAT and ACT,” she said. “We’re still teaching the standards. The State of Texas standards will be mastered. It’s just under the umbrella of Biblical truth. We’re still doing assessments. They’re not the State of Texas assessments. But we’ll be doing assessments three times a year through Renaissance Learning.”

Davis said Christian Covenant Academy will partner with organizations like 4-H to offer their students extracurricular activities. But the school will not offer competitive team athletics.

The school’s central office will be located at 701 Lyons Ave. in Schulenburg, which currently houses Crossroads Christian Fellowship. Crossroads will soon move to a new location on US 90 between Schulenburg and Weimar. Christian Covenant Academy will move in this summer and begin offering classes there in the fall.

The school will also offer classes at Gate of Triumph Church in Weimar, located at 106 E. Post Office.

Learn more about Christian Covenant Academy and their instructional staff by visiting https://christiancovenantacademy. org.