ANSWER: We are not against tuition-based models for private education, but we are compelled by God to pursue a new path for Christian education. We see the local Church as the epicenter of God’s great institutions. The family is the institution charged with producing leaders in the Church and virtuous citizens for the state. The government, with God-fearing leaders, writes laws with a higher law in their heart, which leads to greater flourishing for human society and greater pressure put upon evil. We are pursuing this model because Christian education is a microcosm. An education that does not engage the soul in addition to the mind, is an education that has failed, and we believe, and the data shows, that Classical Christian education is the best format to accomplish this. We also believe that it is the responsibility of the Christian community to educate their own people and the church is well equipped to join us in this task. There are many families who want more for their children, but they can’t leave public school because of cost and family realities. We want to change that. With God’s help, we can offer the best education to any Christian family who wants it, regardless of their financial status. This school will be a victory of the Lord, which is what we desire to see.

ANSWER: In the fall of 2022 we will definitely offer grades K-3. We would like to offer our community a K-12 school, however, our ability to do that will depend on the number of teachers who apply and their qualifications, as well as the number of classrooms provided to us by the church. Again, any expansion is contingent on our particular model that relies solely on the generosity of God’s people. The more the body gives, the more we can do.

ANSWER: Our goal is to add one grade at a time, sequentially, until the Grammar school is complete with K-6. After the grammar phase is complete, we can implement the logic phase (7-8) and then the rhetoric phase (9-12). The timeline for expansion will depend wholly on the resources available and interest from families.

ANSWER: We serve any Christian family from the region who sees our institution as the best fit for their children.

ANSWER: The Association of Classical and Christian Schools will be our accrediting body and this process will take place once we are a K-12 school. We will not seek WASC accreditation. The ACCS has a higher standard for accreditation, and we seek to comply with their standards.

ANSWER: To review the ACCS certified teacher requirements, click HERE. We will seek candidates who have an undergraduate degree (or higher), and a teaching credential, but experience in classical education is preferred. Most importantly, our teachers must love Christ, love children, love teaching, and love learning. All teachers must pass a Life Scan background check.

ANSWER: Yes, when the Lord provides the teachers, volunteers, and resources to do so.

ANSWER: Both. Centurion’s unique model isn’t viable without an active relationship with the local church. We are strategically developing those relationships, and we are asking churches to provide teacher salaries, volunteers, and facilities. Some of those churches share our theological position and some do not. When hiring teachers and staff, we require that all must adhere to our statement of faith (The 1689). In terms of organic growth, we offer “vision” meetings for small groups, churches and in private homes to communicate the Centurion vision in a more personal way. Please see the home page to schedule a meeting.

Centurion was founded by a group of individual families who are faithful members of local biblical bodies.

ANSWER: Currently our board represents two Church bodies and all board members are actively serving in those churches. We are seeking men who are in pastoral leadership to sit as advisors on our board to ensure we have Godly men who pray for us and advise us regarding theological and spiritual matters. Currently, Faith Community Church and Rolling Hills Community Church are represented on our board. All board members are required to affirm our statement of faith.

As a reformed institution, we are confessional, so our statement of faith is comprehensive as it is expressed in the Second Long Baptist Confession of Faith (written in 1677 & published in 1689). To read The 1689, please CLICK HERE

We are an independent nonprofit corporation with a board of directors and a head of school. Pastoral oversite is conducted on a board advisory level and all our board members, staff, and faculty are required to attend and serve a local, biblical church body.

ANSWER: Our entire curriculum is discipleship-based. All children will begin with catechism (a process of question and answer to establish foundational theology) questions that align with the theology mentioned in the above creeds and confessions. Furthermore, scripture will be read and memorized throughout the year. The study of theology and church history is vital to discipleship growth, and both are given primary importance throughout the curriculum. Most importantly, God is integrated into every subject and every aspect of the school culture. Parents are especially important in this process since they will be instilling a love for God in every area of the home. Parents are the principal disciplers of their children and we serve parents to help them in this high calling.

ANSWER: We encourage all families to be active members in their local church body where they can edify and serve. Specific training for vocational ministry we leave to the teaching elders and pastors in the local church as well as the qualified seminaries designed to produce preachers of the word and servants in the cause of Christ. We seek to encourage this vocation in our own culture and desire to see many of our students become great men who are preachers of the word and many men and women to serve the body in other aspects of vocational ministry.

ANSWER: Yes. part-time teachers are essential to our success. These individuals will be utilized throughout the K-12 school.

ANSWER: Ideally, we’d love to fill high school teaching positions with specialists who can teach one subject at a time. This is similar to a university model. The use of qualified part-time, volunteer, and adjunct faculty will be extensive. However, our full-time staff will need to teach multiple preps at any given time. We would like to do no more than three preps if possible.

ANSWER: For the gifted and accelerated students, we would offer additional opportunities in and outside the classroom (more will become clear as we grow). As for students with special needs, most of their needs will be addressed through greater one-on-one attention as a result of small class sizes and through the help of aids and volunteers.

ANSWER: We will avoid AP and IB in the social sciences, but could use this in math and the hard sciences. This also depends greatly on the instructor we have.

ANSWER: The classical movement offers many different continuing education opportunities. ACCS has a main conference every summer that we would love to send some of our teachers to. There are auxiliums at larger Classical Christian schools like Logos, Veritas, and The Ambrose school. Some classists have begun launching their own conferences like Joshua Gibbs. As an institution of learning, we will promote and make every effort to ensure our teachers continue their learning and mastery of their craft. Vertical teaming will be an inevitable part of our culture once we are larger. Curriculum building will also be encouraged with some of our faculty having specialized knowledge. For example, some schools have written their own Latin or math curricula.

ANSWER: The Apostles Creed, the Nicene creed and approve the Second Lond Baptist Confession of Faith (The 1689) as our theological foundation. All staff will be trained in the 1689 and asked not to teach contrary to it nor speak ill of it publicly or on social media. Fathers or male guardians must affirm their calling as expressed in Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6.

Answer: We look forward to the day when we offer competitive sports. We also will be building a House (British-style culture building) program starting in 7th grade to cultivate a cohesive spirit in the school. We also want to further encourage our families to rethink the role of sport in the future scholastic and vocational realities of their children. Sport is designed as a love for human strength, agility. and teamwork. The athletic world is not a world of that values these virtues, so we reject the reality that sport is the only avenue parents have to see their children enter post-secondary education. The most important work is ensuring they become disciples of Jesus Christ and that they learn to think through the beauty and the truth of His word. Everything we do academically is designed to set up your student for the next level in their educational journey.

That said, we look forward to offering many adventure sports, to begin with and then team sports to follow. We would welcome the mainstream American sports (Baseball, Basketball, and Football) as well as many classical sports if God provides the resources.

Marriage, Sexuality, Gender & Race as stated in the Centurion Policy Manual and Bylaws.

MARRIAGE: We believe God created marriage and defines marriage to be between one man and one woman in a “one-flesh” union for life, uniquely reflecting Christ’s relationship with his church (Gen 2:18-25; Eph 5:21-33). Marriage also serves as the foundational unit of a stable society (1 Cor 7:2) where parents produce citizens for the state and leaders in the church. Therefore, marriage with biblically-minded parents provides the safest and healthiest environment for children to be formed.

SEXUALITY: We believe that any form of sexual conduct outside of the marriage union and sexual activity that would violage the marriage promise is against God’s best design and therefore sinful (this includes, but is not limited to adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, and use of pornography). Sex is a great gift from our creator to be enjoyed, desired and expressed to the glory of God. Violating this gift is a grave offense and outright rebellion against God and his holy law. (Ex 20:1-21; Matt 15:18-20; 1 Cor 6:9-10)

GENDER: We believe God created man Male and a Female, in His image, to glorify Him. It is these two biological and complimentary genders that frame the reality of man and woman as image bearers of a holy and just God. (Gen 1:26-27) Those who reject their biological sex reject God’s design and thus break God’s first and greatest commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength (Mathew 22:34-37).

We believe that every person must be afforded compassion, love, kindness, respect, and dignity and that God offers forgiveness, redemption and restoration to all who repent of and forsake their sin and turn to the only hope for mankind, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ our Lord (Acts 3:19-21; Rom 10-9-10; 1 Cor 6:9-11).

RACE: We believe that God created mankind in his own image and likeness and therefore the primary image human beings bear is the image of a holy and just God. God has blessed us with diversity and has promised that among His chosen are people from every tribe, nation and tongue (Rev 5:9). We also believe the walls of hostility and racism have been once and for all destroyed between people of different races and cultures as a result of the finished work of Christ. We believe each person has a unique story and unique background and that we are called to listen to all people and the unique reality of God’s providence in their journey, but we know that we share the same image, but we are made one through the work and blood of Christ:

“Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. BUT NOW in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down the walls of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.” (Eph 2:12-16)