Academics

We know that academic excellence is one of the reasons why parents send their children to Summit Christian Academy and we don’t take that responsibility lightly. Our curriculum is designed to provide our students with a solid foundation that will help them to thrive once they complete high school and move onto college.

In order to verify that our students are progressing and academically competitive with other students in the country, we administer the TerraNova Achievement Test annually. Historically, our school consistently has scored in the upper third nationally on standardized testing. In addition, many of our individual students typically score in the 90th percentile and above.

The use of the TerraNova test is just one of several measures that we take to assess the effectiveness of our curriculum and teaching methods to ensure academic excellence.

National Top 1/3rd

Many of our students score in the 90th percentile and above

TerraNova Test

Partnership with Duke TIP

The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) is a nonprofit organization that has served over three million academically talented students in grades 4–12 since it was founded in 1980. Collaborating with educators and parents, TIP helps gifted students assess the extent of their academic abilities with above-grade-level testing, recognizes them for their achievements, and provides them with a variety of enrichment benefits as well as accelerated face-to-face and online educational programs. In addition, TIP is constantly conducting research into the educational, emotional, and social factors impacting the lives of gifted children, and then sharing this research and related advice with our program staff, educators, parents, and the greater gifted community.