St. Monica Catholic Academy vs. Beaver County Christian

Divine Mercy Academy exists to form each child by instilling Catholic values and developing his or her own uniqueness in a quality educational environment.

Divine Mercy Academy offers a safe, drug free, nurturing environment, a sound curriculum based on Gospel Values and individual attention to student needs enabling each student to utilize his or her gifts as Christ Centered citizens.

Our school, grounded in the tradition of Gospel values as evidenced through spiritual experiences and service to others, maintains ties with the Sisters of Divine Providence by supporting them financially and inviting them to school as speakers and advisors.

We maintain a spiritual focus through service projects and dramatizations of Scripture during Christmas and Lenten seasons, and frequent planning of and participation in Liturgies and paraliturgies.

Additionally we maintain high expectations and encourage each student to set goals that will allow them to achieve his/her highest potential.

We accomplish this through adherence to curriculum guidelines, updated textbooks and audio-visual materials, multifaceted instruction and learning opportunities such as oral and written assignments, group work and projects, cooperative learning and peer tutoring.

Consistency of assignments and clarity of work from one grade level to another is maintained.

Beaver County Christian School is a community of Christian families who, in order to equip their children for service to Christ, are actively working together to develop, operate, and maintain an excellent, challenging educational program reflecting a Christian world and life view in an environment that stresses compassion and responsibility.

In the philosophy of Christian Education, the basic presupposition is the fact of the personal-infinite God as we find Him revealed in the infallible Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

This presupposition leads to the teaching of facts concerning the universe as God-created facts and not neutral, and to the study of mankind as created in the image of God but fallen into the abnormal condition of sin.

The aims of Christian Education are to to relate each area of study to a Christian world and life view based on Scripture; to develop an integral view of life which avoids putting different areas of study into separate compartments; and to encourage the fullest possible development of physical, mental, emotional and social capacities of each individual student to the glory of God.