SCHOOL PROFILE

By The Numbers

1983 – The year CCA was founded
55 – Minutes to eat lunch off-campus
45 – Minutes in each class period
26 – Degrees held by 15 faculty and administration members
17 – Street on which CCA is located
16 – Merit scholarships available
15 – Average class size
14 – Sports teams, performing arts groups, and student clubs and organizations
8:25 – The time the academic day begins, going until 3:10pm
7 – Academic periods a day
5 – SEPTA bus lines within four blocks of the school
2 – Subway lines within walking distance of CCA
1:8 – Faculty to student ratio
1 – All-school overnight fall retreat on the Chesapeake Bay

Governance

City Center Academy is an independent (not church-run), non-denominational day school with an evangelical perspective. Policies and standards are established by an independent Board of Directors.

Christian Commitment

The board, faculty and administration are committed to the infallible authority of the Word of God and a unified theological and ethical perspective based on its foundational emphases:

The Lordship of Christ over all of life,
The efficacy and sufficiency of grace,
The importance of knowledge in the Christian life, and
The sufficiency and authority of Scripture.

City Center Academy is committed to Christ-centered education and has Christian leaders, faculty and staff, and philosophy of education. CCA welcomes students and families who are not Christian. Our students and their parents are not required to sign a statement of faith or have church membership. However, the school does require that you understand and support the Christian nature of your child’s education.

Accreditation and Affiliations

City Center Academy is fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

This means that we have met standards for....

Defining appropriate educational goals and providing educational programs to achieve them;
Maintaining a qualified faculty and an affective school organization;
Assessing outcomes of school experiences and controlling the quality of educational programs;
Responding to concerns of parents and needs of our school community
Providing for the continuity of our programs and planning for our future;
Describing with accuracy the content of our services and programs.
(From “Your Child is in an Accredited School”--CESMAS)

We are also members of:
StreetSchool Network (SSN)
Christian Schools International (CSI)
Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)
Mid-Atlantic Christian School Association (MACSA)
Philadelphia Area Christian Schools (PACS)

Statement of Faith

Education, if it is to be truly Christian, must be by definition committed to the Old and New Testament as the only authoritative rule of faith and practice. The belief, theory, teaching, and personal conduct of the staff, faculty and board must be above reproach biblically. Therefore, we affirm:

That the Bible is the only inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God;
That there is only one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
The deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of God the Father, and His personal return in power and glory;
That for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential;
That a person becomes justified by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ;
The present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life;
The resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation;
The spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and His church.

Non-Discriminatory Policy

City Center Academy admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policy, scholarship programs and athletic or other school-administered programs.