Affordable and Accredited Christian education at PCCS!

Attending an ACCREDITED high school is essential when applying to colleges and universities. It also matters to parents who want schools with outside accountability. PCCS is fully accredited by COGNIA (the parent organization to AdvanEd/Southern Association of Colleges and Schools). It is the world's largest educational accreditor evaluates all aspects of school performance. Each accreditation cycle, PCCS is rated exemplary in parent involvement, integration, and communication as well as meeting all standards related to financial management, leadership, faculty credentials, educational programming, college & career support, learning differences support, admissions, and more. See the Academics general tab for recent high scores and Re-Accreditation accolades!

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Parents seeking PARENT INVOLVEMENT AND AFFORDABILITY will be pleasantly surprised at Poetry's monthly tuition rates, which are less than most pay for day care. SEE THE "WHY PCCS?" TAB for the TUITION CHART. Lower tuition rates are possible because of the school's Parent Partnership Program. "PCCS contractually requires a minimum of five parent partner hours per month for a single child enrolled (and 4 hours per month for each child if more than one child is enrolled. These hours support operations such as housekeeping, traffic monitoring, athletics, recess and lunch monitoring, and campus maintenance," notes the school's partnership coordinator. More than 1500 parent partner hours per month keeps overhead down and ensures parents are integrated into the school.

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Parents seeking EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE with a CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION find it at Poetry. PCCS is a private school where GOD MATTERS. The school is unique in offering College Preparatory Programming, Dual College Credits, and a Learning Link Program--to assist students with learning differences such as dyslexia. Pre-admission testing is necessary to identify academic proficiencies as well as any academic gaps from prior educational settings or learning differences (to be addressed through summer tutoring, school term tutoring, adjusted grade placement, or assignment to one or more small group classes). See Admissions expectations on the APPLY & ENROLL TAB. PCCS students perform well on national tests and college entrance exams - multiple-year school averages are consistently high. 

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DIVERSE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING gives students many options! Elementary schedules through 6th grade include two periods of mathematics and three periods of ELAR (English, language arts, reading) to build a foundation of core competencies. Upper school schedules 7th through 10th grade include two periods of English (Writing/Grammar and Literature) plus Membean Vocabulary. The High School Graduation Checklist requires four years of mathematics, English literature, history and science plus two years of writing and foreign language (Spanish/11th and 12th grade years), health, college & career and more. The Early College Credit Program credits are gained through the school's partnership with Nelson University toward a an Associate's Degree-General Studies using our own embedded PCCS faculty and college professors. All students choose electives each semester from more than 50 Enrichment Electives Courses including honors English, Christian Soldiers Karate (50+ in the program), technology courses, physical education, athletics, Dave Ramsey money management for teens, guitar, keyboard, drums, lit circles, study skills, digital awareness, theatre troupe, TSI/SAT/ACT prep, digital signage, archery, culinary arts, Christian character-building, vo-tech, adulting, and various art classes (e.g. pen art, drawing, painting, design, quilting, sculpture, scrapbooking, scripture art). See the Academics tab for a sample Enrichment Electives schedule.

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Athletes will enjoy the school's DYNAMIC ATHLETICS PROGRAM. Sports offerings are based upon student interest and where teams will excel. Primary sports include High School and Middle School teams for Girls' Basketball, Softball, and Volleyball, plus Boys' Basketball and Baseball. Other Sports include Cross Country Track (fall), Track & Field (spring), Archery (4th-12th), Cheer Squad (Elementary-High School), and Karate (3rd & up). Individual sports have historically included Swimming and Golf. Over the years, PCCS has gained league recognition at the district, regional and state level in varsity volleyball (State Champions) and district and regional championships in basketball. Track include State records in the 400m and 200m as well championship medals in the 800m, mile, shotput, 4x400m relay, and 4x200m relay. Several alums are also Junior Olympians and NCAA and NAIA college athletes and scholarship recipients. Under the National Archery in Schools Program (NASP), our certified instructors prepares students for matches at the on-campus archery range and have state medalist. While academics take first place at PCCS ("no pass, no play"), athletics are an important part of student life in promoting and developing sportsmanship, offering healthy competition, and utilizing God-given abilities.

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The school's 12.6-ACRE CAMPUS includes plenty of green space and tress plus the Upper Building, Decade Building, Elementary Building, playground, Science Porch and Outdoor Experiential Classroom, High School Science Center, an Outdoor Classroom, two recess pads, rec volleyball court, picnic area, camping area, regulation-size Baseball Field and Softball Field. The 11,000 sq. foot Multi-Purpose Building houses a gym plus a 3,750 sq. foot Annex with classrooms and an art room, tutoring and music rooms, Praise Team studio, and a dance/music studio. The MPB includes the Athletics Dept. offices, Christian Soldiers Karate studio, performance theatre, and concessions/kitchen. The 7,500 sq. foot Decade Building houses classrooms, two up-to-date 20-station student computer labs, and a consolidated library. This building complements the original 6,700 sq. foot Elementary Building and 7,000 sq. foot Upper School Building. On the West Campus, high school students enjoy the new HS Science Center adjacent to the new 20,000 Pioneer Activities Center (PAC) undergoing finishout. This new facility includes a NBA-sized wood gym floor and will offer home team/visitor bleachers, indoor/outdoor access to concessions, locker rooms, weight room, exercise rooms, art studio, music studio/band room, practice rooms plus a second floor student cheering section. Inflation has slowed this project's final completion, so please donate a tax-deductible contribution at the DONATE tab below!

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YEAR-ROUND ADMISSIONS means PCCS accepts and enrolls new students weekly throughout the school term. Admissions for students enrolling in the fall open February 1st and will be considered after current families fill spaces for the next year. Students wishing to enroll now simply go to the Apply & Enroll tab and apply to start class generally within one week. Fall classes begin with a Friday Orientation Day near the end of August (see Academic Calendar). For more information or to schedule a tour, call 972-563-PCCS. Poetry Community Christian School offers several scholarships each year based upon demonstrated financial need (on a space-available basis if TEFA funds were not available) utilizing the FACTS Tuition Management Financial Aid & Grant electronic application process.