Student Profile
PORTSMOUTH CHRISTIAN
College Board SAT Results
Mean Scores (2009-2010)
Critical Reading: 583 Math: 569 Writing: 575
College Board SAT Results
Mean Scores (2009-2010)
Critical Reading: 583 Math: 569 Writing: 575
* 95% reporting
Based on Stanford Achievement Test (SAT’s) results, PCA students regularly exceed public, private and ACSI schools in all grades and categories. The SAT’s are taken by all Upper School students each year. The most recent test results show that the average Upper School student at PCA is ranked in the top twenty percent on the complete battery of tests.
The Curriculum
Portsmouth Christian Academy’s Upper School is a high school offering rigorous academics with a comprehensive, college preparatory curriculum, which includes numerous Honors and Advanced Placement courses.
Honors and AP Courses
The Curriculum
Portsmouth Christian Academy’s Upper School is a high school offering rigorous academics with a comprehensive, college preparatory curriculum, which includes numerous Honors and Advanced Placement courses.
Honors and AP Courses
| AP Calculus | AP English |
| Honors Calculus | Honors American Literature |
| Honors Pre-calculus | Honors Analyzing Writing |
| Honors Algebra II | Honors Rhetoric & Composition |
| Honors Geometry | Honors European History |
| AP Chemistry | Honors WWII/Cold War |
| Honors Chemistry | AP Spanish |
| Honors Physics | Honors Spanish IV |
| Honors Biology | Honors French IV |
| Honors Systematic Theology | Honors Old Testament |
| Honors New Testament |
Select college acceptances
| American University | Massachusetts Maritime |
| Bates College | McGill University |
| Baylor University | Messiah College |
| Biola University | Northeastern University |
| Boston College | Philadelphia Biblical University |
| Boston University | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Brown University | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Columbia University | Rogers Williams University |
| Cornell University | Saint Joseph’s University |
| Dartmouth College | Syracuse University |
| Emerson College | University of Florida |
| George Mason University | University of Maine |
| Gordon College | University of Maryland |
| Grove City College | University of Michigan |
| The College of the Holy Cross | University of New Hampshire |
| Houghton College | US Air Force Academy |
| Ithaca College | US Military Academy |
| James Madison University | Villanova University |
| Johns Hopkins University | Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
| Keene State College | Wheaton College, (IL) |
Philosophy
The Upper School (US) consists of grades 9-12. PCA offers a rigorous college preparatory education in a Christ-centered environment that is respectful and personally challenging.
The Academy provides students with a broad based college preparatory curriculum grounded in a Christian worldview. Critical thinking skills are emphasized; students are encouraged to apply these skills in all subject areas and to use them to explore the fundamental questions of life’s purpose, personal responsibility and faith.
The School
Portsmouth Christian Academy is a regional, independent, non-denominational private school with a total enrollment of approximately 700 students (pre-school through grade 12). The Upper School opened in the fall of 1995 with a freshman and sophomore class. The Academy added a junior class in 1996 and a senior class in 1997. Approximately 200 students are currently enrolled in the Upper School, which is situated on a beautiful 50-acre campus alongside the Bellamy River in Dover, New Hampshire.
PCA opened two new Upper School academic buildings and a secondary gymnasium in the fall of 2003 to accommodate an eventual student body of 500. The Upper School earned accreditation (NEASC) in the fall of 2005.
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