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Canyonville Christian Academy
Canyonville, Oregon
United States
canyonville.net

To any parent considering sending your child to this school, I would ask you to be cautious and to please consider other options. As a parent of a former student, both my husband and I were deeply dissapointed with the education our child received. Upon graduating from CCA, our child enrolled in a moderately competitive private university and nearly dropped out due to poor grades and a lack of preparedness. This, despite the fact that our child carried an almost perfect GPA and graduated Valedictorian of their class. This was several years ago now, but from what I've learned about the school in the last few years, the academics in most departments have acctually deteriorated.

Questions to ask admissions: How many CCA graduates go on to graduate from college? What specific colleges did students go on to attend last year (the list over their 75 year history may be acceptable, but a recent list will give you a better idea of which colleges are accepting these students)? What percentage of students speak English as their native language (international students bring in more money, so the majority of the student body cannot speak English above the third grade level)? What is the turn over rate for staff? How many employed teachers do not have an undergraduate degree and what do they teach?

There are other complaints our child made about food, lack of activities, poor sports program, etc. but our biggest concern was scraping by to send our child to a college prep school that turned out to be an expensive cakewalk.