A community Christian school, serving families since 1977.
Non-denominational. Independent. Rooted in Scripture. Focused on the whole child.
About Shrewsbury Christian Academy
Shrewsbury Christian Academy is a non-denominational, community Christian school serving families within Southern York County, Pennsylvania, as well as northern Harford and Baltimore Counties, Maryland. SCA is governed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees — parents and local business people who manage the business affairs of the school.
SCA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, supported through tuition and generous donations from churches, businesses, and individuals. Donations of materials, services, property, stock/bonds, and cash are always welcome and are tax deductible to the extent granted by state and federal law.
Since our founding as Christian School of Southern York County, the academically qualified teachers at SCA have been committed to investing in the lives of the students we serve — helping them mature spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. Dallastown, Red Lion, South Eastern, South Western, and Southern school districts provide public school bus transportation to SCA students at no charge.
Our history
Shrewsbury Christian Academy was founded by Jeanette Harvey in 1977 as a ministry to the community, welcoming students from a variety of backgrounds and denominations. Over the years, the school has continued to grow in numbers, programs, and reputation. We remain committed to providing a unique Bible-based, Christ-centered education that prepares young people to impact their world for Jesus and to develop a Christian worldview that will be lived out in real and meaningful ways.
Vision
Achieving excellence in knowledge and faith.
Mission
Educating students in a Christian environment that reveals God's ultimate purpose for their lives.
Five areas in which we help the whole child grow.
Shrewsbury Christian Academy partners with home and church to provide an atmosphere in which the whole child may grow toward full God-given potential.
Spiritual Growth
Understanding the Bible as God's inerrant Word and forming a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Intellectual Development
Effective thinking, comprehension, communication, and computation — integrated with Biblical principles.
Physical Improvement
Caring for the body as God's temple through exercise, nutrition, sportsmanship, and coordination.
Emotional Stability
Applying Biblical principles to success, failure, stress, emotions, and healthy self-image.
Social Maturity
Developing respect for authority, self-discipline, good citizenship, and responsibility to home and community.
Statement of Faith
- We believe in the divine inspiration, infallibility, and final authority of the Bible as the Word of God.
- We believe in the Triune God, eternally existent as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the uniqueness of man, by virtue of his special creation in God's image.
- We believe in Jesus Christ as true man and true God; in His unique Deity as the incarnate, virgin-born Son of God.
- We believe in the representative and substitutionary death of our Lord Jesus Christ as the necessary atonement for our sins.
- We believe in the Holy Spirit, through whom we come to faith in Christ and who enables us daily to grow in grace.
- We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, and in His personal return.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
- We believe that marriage is sanctioned exclusively by God, which joins one man and one woman as a single union in holy matrimony.
Philosophy
What is a Christian school?
A non-public, privately funded school which gives instruction in all subjects normally taught in private and public schools, and which seeks at all times to give a central place to the Bible and Christian truth.
Why have a Christian school?
"And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your hearts and you shall teach them diligently to your children." — Deuteronomy 6:6–7
A Christian school exists so that a child may be led into a close relationship with God through a sound educational program. Education must do more than prepare us for life on this earth; it must begin to develop in us a Biblical worldview by which we see God's handiwork in all things.