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Portrait of a Graduate

Portrait of aGraduate

While each of our schools embrace their own unique approach to meet the diverse needs of our students, we are united by a shared vision for student success. Our four core competencies are intentionally designed to guide and support students from their earliest years in preschool through high school graduation. These outcomes are thoughtfully aligned across every grade level, ensuring a seamless, developmentally appropriate progression that cultivates well-rounded individuals who are prepared for all walks of life. Discover more bout these competencies that we call "expected student outcomes" below.

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Effective Communicators
  • Listen openly and respectfully to other people's ideas, filtering everything through the lens of a biblical worldview.
  • Respond and communicate with confidence, wisdom, and discernment.
  • Communicate well through writing and speaking, reading, presenting, and the arts.
  • Collaborate with openness, flexibility, and responsibility.
  • Integrate different forms of communication creatively and effectively.
Engaged Learners
  • Understand and apply subject content and skills.
  • Cultivate virtues and intellectual habits (Curiosity, Openness, Engagement, Creativity, Persistence,  Responsibility, Flexibility, Metacognition).
  • Discern, reason, problem-solve, and think creatively.
  • Organize and use information to support conclusions.
  • Value and maintain physical, social, emotional, moral, and spiritual health.
Faithful Disciples
  • Develop a reflective Christian worldview so they may confidently defend their faith and share biblical truth in a manner that is culturally aware.
  • Recognize that the Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God, a guide for living through which they can know Christ.
  • Develop a Kingdom Mindset in relationships, discipleship, community,  and service to others.
  • Foster a reverence for God, respect for all authority, and an appreciation for God’s diverse creation.
  • Understand stewardship and the Goal of doing everything to the glory of God.
Servant Leaders
  • Model a reflective and strong work ethic.
  • Respect themselves and the diversity of others as image-bearers of Christ.
  • Promote and practice justice, mercy, and peacemaking in family and society.
  • Demonstrate responsible citizenship in all endeavors.
  • Recognize and utilize diverse gifts in the body of Christ and in the community.
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Effective Communicators
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Faithful Disciples
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Servant Leaders

"Our ultimate goal is the transformation of our students through the power of the Holy Spirit.  We created the Portrait of a Graduate to reflect the progression of our students into graduates who are engaged learners, pursuing truth with curiosity and discipline, servant leaders who lead with humility and compassion, effective communicators who listen before they speak with clarity and grace, and faithful disciples who reflect Christ in both character and calling. We envision every graduate becoming a faithful warrior for Jesus Christ, engaging the world around them, leaving it better than they found it."

Taylor Hasty, High School Principal