CURRICULUM

VCA's curriculum is a college prep program that encourages students to be well prepared for their future.  To accomplish that goal, VCA's students are introduced to an advanced curriculum at all grade levels.

The elementary classes predominantly use the A Beka Curriculum published in Pensacola, Florida.  Several supplements are used to help the students excel.  Examples of these supplements or alternatives are BJU Press Bible, Zaner-Bloser handwriting, and the Barnell-Loft Specific Skills supplemental reading series.  Elementary classes are also supplemented with weekly computer, PE, and music classes.  In the third grade, students learn to play a flutophone, so they are ready for elementary band and choir in fourth grade.  Every year, our students display their skills both in concerts and in competitions.

Junior high introduces a new phase in growing up.  Students change classes and teachers for each subject area.  The curriculum is a mixture of publishers.  History, science, and Bible use BJU Press.  Math uses both BJU Press (Algebra I) and A Beka (pre-algebra) curriculums, and English uses the A Beka curriculum.  Possible electives include keyboarding, health, computer science, band, choir, and teachers aide.  The classes offered at VCA prepare junior high students for a college preperatory high school.

Senior high students are challenged with a curriculum that encourages them to excel.  The curriculum is frequently supplemented with additional information, projects, and opportunities.  For history, Spanish, most math, Bible, and science classes, students use the BJU Press curriculum.  English classes use the A Beka curriculum.  The elective classes use a variety of curriculum.  Some of the electives offered include band, choir,  computer applications/web programming, introduction to networking, health, geography, journalism, yearbook, study skills, teacher's aide, and PE.

Several Advanced Placement (AP) classes are offered to juniors and seniors.  These classes receive an extra point in the GPA, and they qualify students to take the AP exams, which can qualify them for college credit if they receive at least a  3 of 5 on the exam.  The classes are AP English (11, 12), AP Calculus (12), AP US History (11), and AP Gov't/Econ (12).