Welcome

Haw River Christian Academy is a new classical Christian school in Chatham County, North Carolina.  We are opening in the Fall of 2008 and initially offering transitional kindergarten (ages 4-5), kindergarten (half-day), and Grades 1 & 2 with plans to add one grade per year until we are serving grades K-12.  

Our mission is to educate students with a Christ-centered foundation and excellent classical academics while encouraging students to discover their unique Godly design, purpose and calling. All subjects are taught as part of an integrated whole, with the Scriptures at the center, serving as the hub of all knowledge. As a result, students learn to interrelate and examine knowledge, allowing them to view their studies as a unified effort. The focus of this effort is to see God's sovereignty over all and to glorify Him.

We use the time-proven approach of classical education to teaching which structures learning according to the God-given stages of child development. This enables students to gain knowledge, understanding, and wisdom at an age when subjects are most easily mastered. The curriculum is taught in a three-part educational process termed "The Trivium," and each phase is dependent on the others.

At Haw River Christian Academy, our vision is to graduate young men and women, who think clearly and listen carefully with discernment and understanding; who reason persuasively and articulate precisely; who are capable of evaluating their entire range of experience in the light of the Scriptures; and who do so with eagerness in joyful submission to God. We desire them to recognize cultural influences as distinct from biblical and to be un-swayed toward evil by the former.

We aim to find them well prepared in all situations, possessing both information and the knowledge of how to use it. We desire they be socially graceful and spiritually gracious; equipped with and understanding the tools of learning; desiring to grow in understanding, yet fully realizing the limitations and foolishness of the wisdom of this world.  We desire they have a heart for the lost and the courage to seek to dissuade those who are stumbling toward destruction; that they distinguish real religion from religion in form only; and that they possess the former, knowing and loving the Lord Jesus Christ.  And all these we desire them to possess with humility and gratitude to God.