Westgate Christian School vs. St. Stephen's Academy

Westgate Christian School strives for academic excellence in order to prepare students for a life of service to God.

We believe in traditional educational procedures and emphasize the basics in building an academic foundation.

The academic curriculum focuses on preparing and enabling the student to communicate effectively with others, to work responsibly and productively in a technically-oriented society, to further his Christian and American heritage, and to apply biblical wisdom in daily life.

Our students seek to understand not only the Bible, but also language, literature, mathematics, history, music, and the natural sciences.

Students are challenged to work independently and to think for themselves as they build convictions that will stand under the pressures of our modern culture.

Westgate Baptist Church is committed to seeing the Gospel proclaimed and the cause of Christ advanced in our own Portland area, in the Pacific Northwest region of our nation, throughout the United States, and across the entire globe.

We are privileged to be able to partner together with twenty different missionary families who minister the Gospel around the world in fifteen different countries.

Westgate is the sending church for two of these families: the Dean family and the Sode family.

Our prayer is that God would send forth more laborers from our midst.

St. Stephen`s Academy exists to support families and churches by providing an academically excellent classical Christian education that cultivates knowledge, wisdom, eloquence, and godly character and equips students with the tools of learning that will last a lifetime.

St. Stephen`s Academy has become one of the leading PreK-12 classical Christian schools in the Northwest.

Our curriculum is designed to produce life-long learners who rightly understand and enjoy the world in which they live, engage contemporary culture from a Christian worldview, and communicate effectively, graciously, and truthfully.

To accomplish this we follow a time-tested classical liberal arts curriculum organized around the Trivium (Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric), which generally correspond to a child`s natural stages of intellectual development.

St. Stephen`s employs and develops highly effective teachers and staff who are committed to the classical model and who strive to pass on their love of learning to their students.

Our implementation of the classical Christian model of education has been rigorously examined and affirmed by our accrediting body, the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS).

Our model of education consistently produces students who demonstrate knowledge, wisdom, eloquence, and virtue in their homes, churches, vocations, and communities for a cost far below that charged by other independent schools in our area.