The Bear Creek School
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The Bear Creek School
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[edit] Overview
The Bear Creek School is a K-12 private Christian school in Redmond, Washington. The Bear Creek School is committed to classical education and to integrating the Christian faith in all subjects, extracurriculars, and across all grade levels. The school is currently in a transitional process. The previous head of school and primary founder, Nancy Price, has decided to pursue mission work in Africa. The interim head is Karen Beman, former college advisor of the school. The head of school search committee and the board of trustees announced at the end of February that the new head of school is Patrick Caruth. Caruth is currently serving as a curriculum director and assistant to the head of school to similar Christian Colege prep school in Tennesee.
There are two campuses at the Bear Creek School. The main campus(K-12) is located on 208th AVE next to the redmond fire station. The Valley Campus(K-6) is located near Perrigo Park.
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[edit] Academics
The curriculum at Bear Creek is a classical curriculum based on the trivium. The school is considered to be a college preparatory school. The rigorous curriculum is intended only for the ambitious student who plans to attend a four year university, if not a tier one private school or ivy league school. On average, Bear Creek students receive two to three hours of homework per night, and are required to take an AP class during their Junior and Senior years. Despite being a young and small school, Bear Creek offers an astonishing sixteen AP classes. The school has been home to several national merit semi-finalists, and finalists. Most recently, two students from the class of 2007 had the distinction of achieving perfect scores on the College Board SAT.
[edit] Athletics
The Bear Creek School has developed a reputation in Athletics as a highly competitive school. The school offers cross-country, soccer, basketball, track, tennis, golf, and girl's volleyball. Students also can co-opt and compete for nearby public schools in sports that Bear Creek does not offer, such as swimming.
The School in 1997 became a member of the WIAA. In 2000 Bear Creek opted-up to the division 1A classification. The school was technically supposed to be in a smaller division. The results were terrible for the school, as the basketball team only won two games the entire season and lost games by as much as fifty-five points. The boy's soccer team that year won one game. In 2004 the school returned to the division B classification and since then has developed a reputation in athletics as a highly competitive school.
Since 2004, Bear Creek has won numerous Seatac League titles in almost all sports offered. The following are some notable seasons:
Winter 2006-2007 - Girl's Basketball State Qualifiers - Coach Blake De Young
Fall 2006 - Boy's Soccer State Champions and District Champions - Coach Chad Pohlman
Fall 2006 - Boy's Cross-Country 7th at State Championships, and Tri-District Champions - Coach David Miller
Spring 2006 - Girl's Track 6th at State Championships - Coach Scott Wright and Coach David Miller
Spring 2006 - Boy's Golf State Runner Up -
Fall 2005 - Boy's Cross-Country 6th at State Championships, and Tri-District Champions - Coach David Miller
Fall 2005 - Girl's Cross-Country 11th at State Championships in Division 1A(forced to opt-up) - Coach David Miller
Fall 2004- Girl's Cross-Country 9th at State Championships in Division 1A(forced to opt-up) - Coach Jorunn Grobey
[edit] Extracurriculars
In addition to the athletics mentioned above, Bear Creek offers National Honor Society (NHS), ASB student council, a mission trip once every two years, Bible study groups, tutoring, and math team. The ASB student council offers several committees within student council such as the community service committee, social committee, BASIC (Brothers and Sisters in Christ), Grizzly Pride, Student Relations, and Communications. Students are required to complete 160 hours of community service in upper school prior to graduation.
The social committee provides several school sponsored social events throughout the year. Bear Creek also encourages students to be involved with their local churches and youth groups, but many students choose not to go to church.
[edit] History
1988 - School is founded by Nancy Price.
1999 - New and current building is opened.
2005 - Nancy Price retires from the Bear Creek school to pursue mission work in Africa.
2005 - School acquires new Valley Campus to start a new K-6 school.
2006 - While the school begins an extensive global serach for the new head of school, Karen Beman is appointed Intermin Head of School.
2007 - The Board of Directors announces Patrick Caruth as the new head of school. Caruth will start work on July 1st 2007.
[edit] Noteable Faculty Members
Dr. Ron Lynch - A former member of the Cascades who played "The Rhythm of the Rain" and many other popular songs in the 60s. Lynch teaches drama.
[edit] External links
- tbcs.org- The school's official website
