Lighthouse Christian Academy, Private Christian school in Santa Monica, United States.
Lighthouse Christian Academy is a private school in Santa Monica, California, serving students from kindergarten through high school. The curriculum covers standard academic subjects alongside biblical content within a structured daily schedule.
Lighthouse Christian Academy was founded in 1992 as an outgrowth of the Lighthouse Church School, a ministry of the Lighthouse Church in Santa Monica that began in 1983. It started in church rooms, taught mostly by parents seeking an alternative to secular public education. Enrollment growth led to the purchase of a separate high school campus about a mile away in 2004. Senior Pastor Rob Scribner, a former UCLA and LA Rams football player, is largely credited with the college preparatory school's creation.
Athletics run through the California Interscholastic Federation, Southern Section and Harbor League. The volleyball team won CIF league championships in 2004 and 2005, and the football team finished runner-up in 1997 and 2004. Alumni include Joy Womack, a former Bolshoi ballerina, and Jordan Payton, a UCLA wide receiver.
The high school occupies its own campus, bought in 2004, about a mile from the Lighthouse Church School, where the original classes met in church rooms. International students are housed with host families as part of enrollment. The student-to-teacher ratio is 10:1, and the school reports that 80% of graduates go on to four-year universities.
The school grew out of a parent-led church school and was largely the idea of Rob Scribner, senior pastor of Lighthouse Church and a former UCLA and Los Angeles Rams football player. Its international students, about 10% of the roughly 50 enrolled, live with host families.
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