Evangel Christian Academy

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Evangel Christian Academy is a prepartory school in Shreveport, Louisiana with two campus spanning K-12, owned & operated privately in association with Shreveport Community Church (formerly First Assembly of God Church) which is located on the property of the grade school sister campus.

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[edit] History

Rodney and Frances Duron, parents of the current chancellor, Denny Duron, founded the school in 1980 as a small kindergarten to eighth grade school. Their vision was to establish a school that would offer families of Shreveport an affordable private school, a school that welcomed a diverse student population and a school that stressed excellence in academics, the arts and athletics. The high school was added as a second campus in 1989. Evangel has grown from 21 graduating seniors in 1990 to over 100 seniors in 2001. The school currently has approximately 600 students.

As of Spring 2005, Evangel Christian Academy is the only school in Caddo Parish, public or private, to have earned SACS accreditation for grades K-12th. Evangel Christian Academy is a state approved (K(5)-12) school through the Louisiana State Department of Education. It offers students of all ages a challenging curriculum, preparing them for higher education and for life.

[edit] Mission Statement

"Educating for lifelong success and enriching with Christian purpose."

Evangel Christian Academy shall have high spiritual and academic standards and shall include the development of the whole person spiritually, mentally, socially, physically, and emotionally. Emphasis is placed on learning about God and the truths of God's Word in relationship to the student's world, recognizing that the only way to God comes through personal faith in Jesus Christ and the Christian maturity comes by application of the truths of the Bible in all areas of life.

[edit] Campus

The ECA high school campus lies on approximately a fifteen acre lot in West Shreveport. The elementary campus and Shreveport Community Church occupy an approximate sixty acre lot ten blocks South of the high school campus. The high school campus is home to the "main" high school classrooms (divided into "A" and "B" wings with ten rooms on either side serving various purposes) including a library with over thirty-five Dell Dimension 3000 desktop computers (20 more of which that can be found in the computer lab), a main and student office, and an atypical high school cafeteria with food service provided by the Sodexho food service company. Further back in the campus are the "T" (temporary) buildings that were the original and only classes available at the original founding of the high school. The campus also includes five tennis courts, one softball, baseball, and recently overhauled football field.


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