About Us

About Calvary Chapel School

About Us

Founded in 1996, Calvary Chapel School is a Christian school that educates students from K5 through 8th grade. We provide an excellent academic program in an environment where God's Word forms the foundation for all learning. Our discipleship-oriented culture provides a rich environment for cultivating each student, growing a community of well-equipped and faithful disciples of Jesus Christ.

We are a private Christian school dedicated to high academics, virtue, and integrity in our students. Christ is at the center of all we do—our statement of faith, curriculum, and activities. We partner with families to train children to think, speak, and act as Christians. Through discipleship, high behavior standards, and activities for all ages, students also develop a grace-filled character and love for all people.

Our students test out on average 2.5 grades higher than the national norm on SAT! They also participate in various service and enrichment opportunities such as mission trips, field trips, service projects, and retreats.

Our desire is to prepare each child to be the best they can be through a quality spiritual and educational environment while keeping it affordable for their parents!

We are a ministry of Calvary Chapel Sarasota.

CCS Distinctives

Academic Excellence

Effective, well trained Christian teachers who love the Lord and their students.
Nurturing classrooms managed by teachers who are committed to their students and who strive to model the fruit of the Spirit in all of their living (Gal. 5:22).
Daily Bible instruction and prayer, with every subject integrated with the truths and Christian values contained in the Bible.
All students are taught to seek forgiveness for sin, accept Jesus Christ as their Savior, take personal initiative to study God’s Word, and make it their primary objective to love, serve, and honor Jesus Christ.

Vision / Goals / Mission

Vision

Mission

Vision

Our vision is to disciple children to know God and His Word and help them develop a Biblical worldview that will shape their thinking during their time at our school and long after they leave CCS. We want the students to have a strong and genuine relationship with Jesus. We want students not only knowing about Jesus, but knowing and loving Him in a personal way. We want them to be prepared to navigate a world of ideologies in the light of biblical truth. In order to do this, they will need to be diligent students of the Bible, accurately handling the Word of Truth (2 Tim 2:15). They will also need to be doers not only hearers of the Word (James 1:22). We strive to be a Christian school that provides an environment that encourages students not only to learn about God, but to develop a personal intimate relationship with Him through worship, Bible reading and prayer.

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Goals

Mission

Vision

It is our goal as a Christian school to provide students and parents with the Truth found only in the Word of God.

It is our goal to follow the Bible in everything we do and to model Jesus to our students and parents.

It is our goal to serve the family in every capacity possible to raise their children in the knowledge and instruction of th

It is our goal as a Christian school to provide students and parents with the Truth found only in the Word of God.

It is our goal to follow the Bible in everything we do and to model Jesus to our students and parents.

It is our goal to serve the family in every capacity possible to raise their children in the knowledge and instruction of the Lord and to assist students and parents alike in spiritual growth, discipleship and Christian living.

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Mission

Our mission at Calvary Chapel School is to partner with churches and families to encourage, equip, and assist Christian parents in their biblical responsibility in bringing up their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord while providing high-quality academic education. We come alongside parents to help in training their c

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School Model

Providing the Truth

We provide a Christ-centered educational program which is based on the authoritative Word of God (2 Tim 3:16-17) to help students in knowing and loving God as well as impress on them a Biblical worldview.

The essential foundation of Christian education is that true knowledge comes from our Creator. Knowledge begins with an understanding o

The essential foundation of Christian education is that true knowledge comes from our Creator. Knowledge begins with an understanding of who God is and who we are in relation to Him. There is no such thing as religious neutrality in education. The very nature of education dictates that schools will inherently communicate some particular belief system.

CCS communicates that God is the source of all truth. Unlike schools that exclude God from the equation and communicate that He is at best irrelevant to truth, or possibly that He does not exist at all and man determines his own truth. We believe that truth is absolute, unchanging, independent of the norm, and is knowable. Therefore, education at CCS is defined by a pursuit of that truth through knowing God and understanding the world He created. We help each student in developing a Biblical worldview which is the lens through which one sees and understands the world.

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Modeling Jesus

Providing the Truth

It is our goal to follow biblical principles in all we do (Col 3:23, 2 Pet 1:3). We employ and develop mature Christian teachers and staff who teach and minister to the students, families, and each other using the word of God and modeling Christ-likeness in their actions (Luke 6:40). By their wise and loving examples, students witness sel

Our teachers and staff have a ministry mindset and their decision to work at CCS is a calling for each one of them. Students thrive when both parents and teachers are like-minded in their desire to teach them from a distinctively Biblical world and life view.

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Serving the Family

Providing the Truth

Serving the Family

We strive to be a Christian school that serves the family and local church as they train young people to have a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ (Deut 6:5-7). We strive to equip the students and the parents in how to study the Bible so that they can live according to God’s Word and then to evangelize and disciple other

Our students experience daily devotionals and prayer, weekly chapel with time of praise and worship and Bible memorization activities which reinforces our bible-teaching infused curriculum. For the parents, we hold Bible studies as well as classes on Biblical parenting and discipleship videos. Parents meet with each other and are given the opportunity to share and encourage each other in their task of raising children to know and love Christ.

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Statement of Faith

We Believe

THE GODHEAD - we believe and teach that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in power and glory; that this triune God created all, upholds all and governs all.

GOD THE FATHER- an infinite, personal Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love; that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men; that He hears and answers prayer; that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

JESUS CHRIST- God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings, His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal, visible return to earth.

THE HOLY SPIRIT- came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify and empower in ministry all who believe in Christ. We believe the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is an abiding Helper, Teacher and Guide. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and in the exercise of all biblical gifts of the Spirit as reflected through the fruit of that same Spirit.

SIN- we believe and teach that all people are by nature separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption and forgiveness are freely offered to all, apart from works, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

SALVATION - When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.

FELLOWSHIP- that the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ’s unconditional (agape) love, which is greater than any differences we possess, and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.

WORSHIP- we believe that worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain rooted in the Word but flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship. We believe worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to music in our worship. We believe worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our chapels are designed with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God that He might instruct us how He should be worshiped. We believe worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have been truly worshiping Him.

THE BIBLE- We believe and teach that all the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, fully inspired without error in the original manuscripts, and the infallible rule of faith and practice.

BAPTISM & COMMUNION- we believe and teach that the Lord Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to the Church: 1) Baptism, and 2) The Lord’s Supper. We believe in Baptism by immersion and that The Lord’s Supper (Communion) is open to all believers.

RETURN OF CHRIST- We believe in the personal, visible return of Jesus Christ to the earth and the establishment of His Kingdom; the resurrection of the body; the final judgement and eternal blessing of the righteous and endless suffering for the wicked.

These statements do not exhaust the extent of beliefs or practices of Calvary Chapel School. The Bible, as the inspired and infallible Word of God, is the final authority of all that we believe concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind. The key elements of Christianity considered primary doctrine are the foundation of beliefs on which CCS is based and will be unapologetically taught in various ways through all grades. Secondary doctrines and issues will not be presented, and will be referred to the family and local church as they arise.