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King's Academy

2170 12th St
208-523-2191

About Us:

At King's Academy, we love God. We want Him to be the foundation of our children's education. We want Him to be the String that ties their lives together, the Key that opens the world of opportunity for them. We want them to know Him, to know that He cares for them, to know that He is the Source of Life, and that He is worth serving.

We love children. We believe their minds are a gift from God, and that developing those minds to the glory of their Creator is the task of education. That is why it is not enough to give our children just an adequate education; we strive to give them the best, for God's glory.

As a non-denominational, non-church affiliated, Christian school, our standard is the Bible. We will teach it, let it fill our children's minds, and pray that they will emerge with a love and respect for it, and a strong dedication to it.

The King's Academy uses the School of Tomorrow's curriculum and procedures, as well as conventional classroom classes for subjects better suited to that format. We feel a mix of curriculum, teaching methods, and instructional formats gives a student the broadest, most diverse, most thorough education. One of the most desirable features of our program is the ability to completely tailor an educational plan for every individual. We believe strongly that no two students are alike, and that the tendency of schools to group kids by age and take them all through a course together is short sighted and is the main cause for the academic frustration at both ends of the spectrum of students-gifted and challenged.

The staff of The King's Academy are all dedicated Christians who have been given by God the gift of teaching. The teachers also take seriously their role as mentors. In addition to turning out well-educated students, we want to turn out respectful, responsible, motivated human beings. We want out students to be nice people. Part of their training here involves learning how to be that.

In America today, there is a growing movement that says, "There is something wrong with the way we let our children treat one another." The King's Academy is on the leading edge of that philosophical shift. We spend an enormous amount of energy as a staff to ensure that students do not bully one another, call each other names, hand out nick-names, single certain students out to be the class joke, and the myriad other forms of nonsense that occur in schools every day. We do not accept the conventional wisdom that "that's how kids are," or "Johnny may as well learn to get used to it now," or "that's how it was in my day." We are committed to the goal of giving every student as fair a chance at success as any other, and we, as a staff pledge to the best of our ability to see that it happens. We will not tolerate less. And we will not tolerate the kind of daily abuse that so many students receive at the hands of classmates. We feel it is our job, as adults, to step up and say, "Not on my watch, you don't. You'll treat one another with respect."

As a result of our commitment, we have a happy group of kids. They feel safe, some of them safer than they've ever felt in a school setting. And that is one of the things we take pride in. We insist they treat each other well, and we do our best to follow through and make sure it happens.