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Principal |
Betty Chapman email the principal |
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Special features |
religious, nonprofit, before- and after- school care |
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Gender composition |
coed |
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Dress code |
Uniforms required: The dress code includes red, white, navy blue and forrest green three buttoned, collared polo shirts with navy blue pants or skirts. Plad (our particular plad) skirts and jumpers may also be worn. These may be purcased from Dennis, French Toast, Target, Sears and Pennys, but must be our style. Shirts are $7.98--12.98. Skirts and pants are $10.98--17.98. |
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School Mission
- Every student entrusted to our care is a gift of God and will receive training both for now and for eternity.
| Curriculum |
- Foreign language(s) taught: Spanish.
- Physical education is required for the following grades: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
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Instructional Program Highlights
- Our ITBS scores show that 49% of our students are in the top 25th percentile compared t the national norms; 45% in the middle 50th
- Percentile and only 6% in the bottom 25th percentile. Our Language scores are the highest with 63% in the top 25th percentile and only
- 1% in the bottom 25th percentile.
| Activities and Sports |
- Girls sports: basketball, field hockey, football, soccer, softball and volleyball.
- Boys sports: basketball, field hockey, football, soccer, softball and volleyball.
- This school has the following art(s) programs: orchestra, band and chorus.
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Parent and Community Support
- Many parents volunteer in the classroom. Field trips have parent drivers. They come for work bees. They are very supportive f all programs.
Other news or notes
- Our teachers are all credentialed, loving, caring people who see teaching as a mission. This school has very little turn over in faculty which creates a strong, stable environment.
| Technology and Facilities |
- 2 students per computer.
- 0% of classrooms are connected to the Internet.
- This school was established before 1920.
- No transportation is provided to this school.
- Recent or upcoming renovations: A very large addition was completed 3 1/2 years ago including a regulation size gymnasium.
- Gymnasium and physical education facilities: The gymnasium is regulation size with one full court basketball and two half courts.
- Library facilities: We have computers in every classroom as well as a computer lab with enough computers to accommodate our largest class so students have access to any library materials online. In addition, we spend $40 per student per year to purchase books to keep our library offerings up to date.
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| Admissions and Enrollment |
- Measures used to evaluate applicants: interview, recommendations and samples of student work.
- To evaluate applicants, this school also uses: TestingTest of Academic Performance.
- Of the students who applied for admission to this school for the current school year, 81-100% were accepted.
- Tuition: $3000-$3999
- 21-40% of students receive financial aid to attend this school.
- The Madison Campus SDA Church provides a subsidy which assists every student but they also have a worthy student fund that will help families who otherwise couldn't come to MCE.
- Graduates typically go to: Madison Academy and Highland Academy.
- Students at this school enroll by choice.
- Students also enroll by: Most are children of the surrounding Seventh-day Adventist chur.
- Less than half of the students at this school come from the neighborhood where the school is located.
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| Safety, Discipline and Support |
- Safety and discipline-related resources include: In-school suspension; closed campus. Other safety and discipline-related resources include: Locked building--access by secretary buzzing you in.
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| Other Features and Highlights |
- 91-95% of students remained enrolled at the school between last school year and this school year.
- Regular classroom hours: 7:45 am to 2:45 pm.
- Accredited by National Council for Private Schools in 2003.
- Accredited by Accrediting Assn. of SDA Schools, Colleges & Universities, Inc..
- Principal has been at this school for 2 years.
- Principal has 30 years of experience.
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| Source of Data |
Additional information, including curriculum and special programs, was either submitted to GreatSchools by a school official or comes directly from the school or school district's Web site. This page was last updated on 02/14/2008. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by school officials.
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