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Northland Christian School
School logo that is applied to every one of the school's uniform polos.
Northland Christian is a college preparatory school dedicated to the development of Christian leaders, from preschool through the 12th grade.
Location
Houston, Texas, United States
Information
School district Private School
Affiliations Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Texas Private School Accreditation Commission (TEPSAC) National Association of Christian Schools National Association of Secondary School Principals Texas Association of Non-Public Schools Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Texas Association for College Admission Counseling

NCS is a member of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) conference
Superintendent Billie McConnell (Starting school year 2008-2009)
Principal Cliff Kraner
Enrollment

1000 or more students (PK-12)
Type Private school
Mascot Cougars
Color(s) Gold, white, and black
Established 1974
Homepage http://www.northlandchristian.org

Northland Christian School is a private college-preparatory Christian school in unincorporated northwest Harris County, Texas, near Houston. The school has two campuses, one for preschool through 5th graders which is the elementary campus located within Bammel Church of Christ, and another for 6th through 12th grade located several minutes away which is the secondary campus. The secondary campus has several buildings in the front which are numbered from 1, the central administrator office and Cougar Store, to building 5. Building 6 is where the school cafeteria, gym, and the orchestra room is located. Building 7 is where more classrooms and lockers are located as well as the "Student Services" office. The school was founded in 1974 and currently enrolls over 900+ middle school, high school, and elementary students. NCS is a member of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) conference.

The school's mascot is the cougar. The current principals are Mr. Nelson and Mr. Kraner.

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[edit] Location of Buildings

[edit] Elementary and Preschool Campus

The Elementary and Preschool campus of Northland Christian School is about less than five minutes away from the secondary campus. The Elementary and Preschool Campus is located within the Bammel Church of Christ in close proximity of a major intersection of FM 1960 and Kuykendahl Rd and less than two minutes away from the Kelsey-Sebold Clinic and Medical Center right across the street and an upper-class neighborhood of Northgate Forest. The Preschool campus is located in the southern wing of the Elementary campus while the Elementary campus (grades K-5) is located at the northern wing of the building.

[edit] Secondary Campus

The Northland Christian School Secondary Campus is located on Sylvanfield Cir in close proximity of a major intersection of FM 1960 and Stuebner-Airline Road, and Bammel North Houston and Veterans Memorial (Continued from Stuebner Airline). The Secondary Campus houses students from grades 6 to 12. There are seven buildings on the Secondary Campus.

Building 1

Building 1 is the central administrator's building. The admissions office, and the school store called the "Cougar Store," is also located here. The Superintendent, the academic conuselor, the Cougar Store manager, and the admissions office director works in this building. The Cougar Store contains school spirit items, school supplies, and refreshments such as various well-known brands of soft drinks such as Coca-Cola, and Vitamin Water, and candy bars.

Building 2

Building 2 contains mainly science classrooms such as Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anatomy, etc. A science lab is located in this building.

Building 3

Building 3 contains mainly math, science, and technology classrooms. The Technology Office is located in this building for any repairs needed on student's laptops. The Campus Minister Office is located here as well.

Building 4

Building 4 contains mainly history classrooms such as United States history, Texas History, Government, and Economics.

Building 5

Building 5 contains the school's "state-of-the-art" weight rooms, Choir Room, Debate Room (shared with the Choir Room), Drama Office, and Music Theory Room (shared with the Choir Room). The fine arts department room is located within this building.

Building 6

Building 6 contains the cafeteria, the main stage, a large gym, orchestra room, media room, jazz ensemble room, and the locker rooms.

Building 7

Building 7 contains more classrooms, mainly English and Science, the "state-of-the-art" library with the Media Center, and the Student Services Office. The Library contains many books available for students to read and learn upon. The Student Services Office is where the staff help and direct the students, and the Middle and High School Principal and assistant principal works. The Athletic Director works in the Student Services Office.

[edit] School Profile

SAT Scores:

  • Verbal - 576
  • Math - 553
  • Writing - 539

ACT Scores:

  • Composite - 23.3

Stanford Achievement Test Scores: National Percentile Rank Grade K-9 Kindergarten

  • Total Reading - 89%
  • Total Math - 90%
  • Complete Battery - 87%

Grade 1

  • Total Reading - 77%
  • Total Math - 79%
  • Complete Battery - 76%

Grade 2

  • Total Reading - 73%
  • Total Math - 72%
  • Complete Battery - 72%

Grade 3

  • Total Reading - 76%
  • Total Math - 79%
  • Complete Battery - 74%

Grade 4

  • Total Reading - 82%
  • Total Math - 78%
  • Complete Battery - 80%

Grade 5

  • Total Reading - 73%
  • Total Math - 77%
  • Complete Battery - 72%

Grade 6

  • Total Reading - 77%
  • Total Math - 73%
  • Complete Battery - 72%

Grade 7

  • Total Reading - 76%
  • Total Math - 75%
  • Complete Battery - 75%

Grade 8

  • Total Reading - 76%
  • Total Math - 76%
  • Complete Battery - 75%

Grade 9

  • Total Reading - 81%
  • Total Math - 79%
  • Complete Battery - 79%

[edit] Admission Into School

"Applicants for admission to Northland Christian School must furnish evidence that they are physically and emotionally fit, of good moral character, and academically capable. All applicants must:

  • complete all of the Application Procedures detailed here;
  • be eligible for re-enrollment in all schools previously attended;
  • have not been suspended or expelled from school within the past twelve months;
  • have no academic semester grade average lower than “C”;
  • have acceptable conduct grades and work habits;
  • score at or above the 50th percentile on the language/reading and math sections of the entrance examination;
  • be free of severe learning or behavioral problems;
  • not be coming directly from any type of rehabilitation program (i.e., drug, alcohol, behavior, mental, etc.);
  • agree to comply with all policies in the PARENT-STUDENT HANDBOOK.

All new students will be accepted on behavioral and academic probation for a period of one calendar year. During this period, conduct and scholarship will be monitored closely. Continued enrollment is dependent upon acceptable levels of attendance, behavior, psychological maturity and academic achievement."

- From Northland Christian School Website

[edit] Standarized Tests

Since Northland Christian School is a private school, it is exempt from TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) Test. Students in grades Kindergarten to 9th grade take the Stanford Achievement Test. Students in grades 3,5, and 7 take the OLSAT Achievement Test. In 7th grade, students identified as "gifted and talented" takes the SAT Test for admission into the Duke's TIP Program. In 10 or 11th grade, students take the PSAT/NMQST test. In 11th or/and 12th grade, students take the SAT or/and the ACT tests.

[edit] Laptop Program

[edit] Laptop Usefulness and Future Plans

The Laptop Program is available at Northland Christian School for grades 8 to 12. In these grade levels, each student gets a laptop for each year use until he or she graduates or withdraws from the school. Sixth and Seventh graders gets access to these laptops as well, but only for school's use. Starting in the 2008-2009 school year, seventh graders gets a full access of laptops to take to each class, but only for school use. They are not allowed to take the laptops home unless with permission. According to the Northland Christian School's website, it states that, "NCS is in agreement with the concepts and ideas detailed in our country’s new National Education Plan that every student needs to learn in new ways and develop 21st Century skills. The only way to insure that students have the opportunity to learn in ways that benefit them, and to develop and apply these new skills in every class, is for every student to have access to the right instructional tools twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week."

[edit] Controversy and Critism of the Laptop Program

Teachers have complained that students are playing online games and hacking into systems while class is in session. Technology staff have reported an extreme number of broken and abused laptops from middle school than high school. There are very few reports of computer abuse from high school students. In middle school, there has been abusive problems from students such as the commonly problems of broken screens, missing key pads on the keyboard, sending out viruses to other students, hacking into computer systems, and especially more of cyberbullying. Parents and teachers have demanded the school to place a strict rule on the abuse of laptops such as a fine for each damage caused intentionally or suspension from computer use or In-School Suspension. Parents do not want the laptop program to be taken away from middle school students like the Pasadana ISD problems with laptop repairs from middle school students. Parents thought that the laptop program would be efficient in enhancing the 21st century skills for current students, but want stricter rules to be placed to reduce the amount of abuse that students caused.

[edit] Northland Christian School's Rapid Growth

Northland Christian School is considered to be one of the fastest growing private schools in the Houston area competing against rival schools such as Cypress Christian School, Concordia Lutheran High School, Sweetwater Christian School, Westbury Christian School, Northwoods Catholic School, and Trinity-Klein Lutheran School. Other rapidly growing private schools include Awty International School and Episcopal High School. Northland Christian School gains more new students mainly from Kleb Intermediate of Klein ISD, Wells Middle School of Spring ISD, and Wunderlich Intermediate of Klein ISD for middle school, and Klein High School of Klein ISD, Westfield High School of Spring ISD, Klein Forest High School, Klein Oak High School of Klein ISD, Cypress Creek High School of Cy-Fair ISD, Houston Christian School, St. Pius X Catholic School, and Concordia Lutheran High School for high school. Northland Christian School has a 74% acceptance rate according to the admissions director.

[edit] Public Schools that Northland Christian School Students are Zoned to

Northland Christian School is located in the Westfield High School Boundary, Wells Middle School Boundary, and Pondersora Elementary School Boundary of Spring ISD.

Most Northland Christian School students are zoned to the following high schools:

  • Westfield High School - Spring ISD
  • Spring High School - Spring ISD
  • Aldine High School - Aldine ISD
  • Cypress Creek High School - Cy-Fair ISD
  • Cypress Falls High School - Cy-Fair ISD
  • Klein High School - Klein ISD
  • Klein Forest High School - Klein ISD
  • Klein Collins High School - Klein ISD
  • Klein Oak High School - Klein ISD

Most Northland Christian School students are zoned to the following middle schools:

  • Wells Middle School - Spring ISD
  • Bammel Middle School - Spring ISD
  • Kleb Intermediate - Klein ISD
  • Doerre Intermediate - Klein ISD
  • Wunderlich Intermediate - Klein ISD
  • Strack Intermediate - Klein ISD
  • Krimmel Intermediate - Klein ISD
  • Klein Intermediate - Klein ISD
  • Hamlimton Middle School - Cy-Fair ISD
  • Claughton Middle School - Spring ISD

Most Northland Christian School students are zoned to the following elementary schools:

  • Mittelstadt Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Brill Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Greenwood Forest Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Ponderosa Elementary - Spring ISD
  • Klenk Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Yeager Elementary - Cy-Fair ISD
  • Frank Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Krahn Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Theiss Elementary - Klein ISD
  • Ehradt Elementary - Klein ISD

[edit] Athletics

Northland Christian School is one of the top schools in atheltics in the Houston area for both middle and high school. Northland Christian School requires all students to participate in Physical Education or Athletics. There is an option for students participating in Olympic-level sports such as the most commonly gymnastics, cheerleading, tumbling, soccer, taekwondo, karate, baseball, football, swimming, etc. outside of school as Off-campus PE to take study hall if they document at least 5 hours per week.

Northland Christian School provides the following sports:

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cheerleading
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Track
  • Volleyball

Sixth grade students are allowed to try-out for Seventh grade teams. Eighth grade students are allowed to try-out for high school sports if needed by the school to fill in the vacant spots such as this year's Junior Varsity Baseball Team.

[edit] Fine Arts

Northland Christian School provides a variety of fine arts courses of performing and visual arts. Courses such as art, drama, photography, orchestra, choir, jass ensemble, and bell choir are avialiable for students to take and enjoy.

[edit] METRO Routes

The Northland Christian School Secondary Campus is located along METRO Route 108.

[edit] Trivia

  • Bronze-medal Volleyball Olympic winner Dan Girleanu teaches United States History at Northland Christian School.
  • Ex-Washington Redskins NFL player Ray Waddy teaches Biology and Bible at Northland Christian School.

[edit] External links


TAPPS 5A

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