CPALIONS. ORG
ERB Algebra assessment, which will only continue to pay dividends as our students continue in their upper school mathematics pathway as well as on the ACT.
We are also celebrating remarkable growth and achievement in the Upper School – clear evidence of our students’ commitment, our faculty’ s dedication, and the strength of our academic programing.
In Advanced Placement( AP) courses participation and performance continue to rise. Since 2022, AP enrollment has increased by 28 %, with 218 students now taking AP classes— including two new offerings: Ninth Grade AP Human Geography and Twelfth Grade AP Macroeconomics. With a record number of students taking AP courses, we also saw our highest performance rate with 93 % of AP students earning a passing score of 3 or higher, contributing to a three-year average pass rate of 89 %. These results reflect both the rigor of our AP program and our students’ readiness for college-level work.
Our ACT scores tell a similar story. The Class of 2025 demonstrated our highest growth to date— raising their average composite score from 23( on the March Junior ACT) to 26 by year’ s end. This 3-point gain exceeds our previous three-year average growth of 2 points and contributes to our current three-year average ACT score of 26.2, which remains well above national and local benchmarks.
As we look to the future as an Academy, it is our vision to be a national model for biblically faithful and highly effective education to prepare the next generation of young men and women to fully invest in Christ’ s mission of restoration. As I step into this new role, I am humbled to serve and lead alongside our division heads and teaching faculty as we strive to continue bringing this vision of a biblically faithful and highly effective education to life for each and every CPA student.
Within our faculty professional development this past February, our team introduced a framework for delivering a biblically faithful and highly effective education( see framework below). As part of the Academy’ s strategic plan over the next 5 years, we will work in collaboration with our spiritual life team to fully implement this model in each and every division and classroom across our campus.
As we look ahead to the 2025-26 school year, several strategic initiatives within this framework that our academic leadership team will be focused on are instruction, curriculum, and support which will all lead to a more biblically faithful and highly effective education for our students..
Instruction- Effective Teaching & Learning
We know that our teachers make all the difference – as I have said many times, we are only as good as the teachers
7