Oakwood Christian Academy in Chickamauga plans to expand to a full high school curriculum, adding grades nine through 12.

Trustees recently informed a packed house of parents, community members, students, and faculty that the new high school program will offer a traditional, fully accredited Christian education with continued standards of excellence for which the private school is known, administrator Deana Jones said.

According to Jones:

Tentative plans are for Oakwood Christian Academy to initially add ninth and 10th grades during the 2010-11 school year, based on the needs of the community. The school will then add a grade per year to complete the full high school program.

Plans also include offering band and chorus, along with athletics. Considerations for inclusion in the sports program include basketball, volleyball, baseball and golf. Currently, the school offers chorus, band, soccer, basketball, golf and track for fourth through eighth grades.

Oakwood Christian Academy opened in 1992 when Dr. and Mrs. Darrell Henry perceived a need for more Christian education in the Northwest Georgia area. The school began with 3- and 4-year-old preschool, and an enrollment of 29 students. Kindergarten classes were added the next year. First grade was added 1998, with additional grade levels added each subsequent year.

The first eighth-grade graduation took place at the end of the 2006-07 school year. The school has averaged about 230 students a year for the past few years.

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For more information on the opening of the new high school at Oakwood Christian Academy, contact administrator Deana Jones at 706-375-7247 or visit oakwoodchristianacademy.org.

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