Tampa Bay Christian Academy

Hello, I was a former student in this school for the 2018 - 2019 school year. I would not reccomend going here. This has to be the most disengaging school I have ever been to. The teachers dont even care about the students and dont even try to get us to engage, the school isnt safe either, apparently a child got hit by a car on the second day of school that year and they(the teachers and admins) werent looking out for anyone as they leave, a field trip to a christian retreat that you are forced to go, if you dont go, you get expelled from this school, that is utter nonsense. They dont even deal with the bullying either, as I was a victim of bullying there, real life and online, harassed for something that doesnt make any sense, tried to tell the admins but they did absolutely nothing on that. I dont reccomend putting your child here, its a waste of a entire school year and a waste of money.

I became the Head of School at TBCA at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year. Since that time we have made significant changes and grown by leaps and bounds as a school. We are the best kept secret in Tampa Bay. We are giving academically disenfranchised, culturally diverse, and economically disadvantaged students the opportunity of a phenomenal, Christian education. We have the best faculty in the Tampa Bay area. Over 40% of our high school faculty has a Ph.D. Almost 90% has a masters degree or higher. Our faculty has worked tirelessly to train our students, 97% of which receive a needs-based scholarship, to reach beyond their circumstances and become the men and women God has called them to be. Our elementary faculty is lovingly and gracefully educating young men and women in the foundations of knowledge. Our faculty expertly focus our Our Administrative staff is guiding our school to excel in every endeavor we undertake, and we are seeing amazing results in our student body. In the midst of the Covid-19 shutdown and the reports of achievement slides and gaps, we have seen tremendous growth throughout our school. We have elementary classes where all of the students have moved from behind grade-level, to high school reading levels this school year. As I observed today, in our 9th grade spring testing, two students, who moved to the United States in the past three years are now reading on college levels in English. Our new high-school is revolutionizing education. We soft-launched our high school Leadership Academy last summer, amidst the pandemic shutdown. This year we have seen our student move to become leaders in their community, school, and family. Through their growth in Socratic seminars, our students are standing up for their beliefs, thoughtfully engaging in the argument, and challenging the status quo to become the strong and bold young women and men they are called to be. In the coming year through partnerships with Microsoft Imagine Academy, Co.Starters, the Harrington Mentorship Initiative, and our incredible alumni and community partners, we are training tomorrow's business, entrepreneurship, and tech leaders. Come and see what is happening in our school. I would love to take you, your family, and your friends on a tour of all the amazing and life-changing things that God is doing on our campus. We are impacting our community for eternity.

Excellent!!! The new administration has done a great job and the changes we see inspire us to trust that our children are in great hands!!!

Amazing! Truly satisfied with the school, the teachers, leadership and curriculum.

I have appreciated the outstanding job that teachers have done in helping me train and educate my children, but I am especially excited about the future of this school. They are training teachers and students to be the very best that they can be, and it shows. I can't wait to see what happens with the new high school Leadership Academy.