Washington Christian Academy (WCA) is a private Christian school originally established in 1960 and presently located in Olney, Maryland at a new campus that was finished in 2008.
Washington Christian Academy is currently a member of Christian Schools International.
History
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Formation
Washington Christian Academy was formed when local families from Presbyterian and Christian Reformed churches in the area felt the need for a strong, biblically based and diverse school in the Washington, DC area. For the time, the school defied cultural values and created a school that specifically named diversity as one of its top qualities. The school was formed as Washington Christian School in 1960 for grades K-4. WCS grew gradually, and in 1982 it leased a larger building from the county on Franwall Avenue in Silver Spring which allowed it to add a middle school and offer instruction through the eighth grade. WCS expanded again in 1996 when it merged with the nearby Silver Spring Christian Academy (a local high school formed by parents of WCS alumni), forming Washington Christian Academy (Pre K-12).
Transition
During the 2004-2005 school year, Washington Christian Academy was notified that it would need to leave the rented facility the following year as the building was to be torn down to construct a new public school.[2] For the three years from the fall of 2005 through the spring of 2008, Washington Christian Academy rented space for its elementary school in Colesville Baptist Church off of New Hampshire Avenue in Silver Spring and likewise rented space for the middle and high schools in Global Mission Church on Georgia Avenue in nearby Aspen Hill. During this transition period, Washington Christian Academy was able to purchase land and build a new facility, which opened in the summer of 2008.
New Campus
Washington Christian Academy opened its newly constructed facility in Olney for the fall semester of 2008. The new building provided the school with an increase in available space and opportunity for future expansion. The new WCA property is 57.63 acres (23.32Â ha) with about 22 acres (8.9Â ha) currently developed including the new building, gym, baseball and soccer fields and parking areas.
Athletics
With the opening of its new Olney campus, WCA also gained a number of modern athletic facilities: including a gymnasium with a hardwood basketball court and seating for up to 300, a multi-purpose athletic field employed for soccer and numerous other sports and a baseball field.
WCA offers the following sports: boys soccer, girls soccer, girls volleyball, boys basketball, girls basketball, cheerleading, baseball, softball, coed track team, coed cross country team and coed golf. WCA has competed in the Maryland Independent Schools Athletic League for many years, but has now accepted provisional membership into the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference for the 2012-2013 school year. Many teams have had success in the MISAL and hope to continue that success in the PVAC.
The WCA Men's Varsity soccer in 2010-11 won the championship game.
After a few years of rebuilding, WCA's soccer program was able to get back on its feet. Within 2015-2017, the Varsity Boys won back-to-back; the PVAC Division along with the PVAC Championship capped off with two MCST (Maryland Christian State Tournament) Championship final appearances which one game was won. In 2017, they won the Championship Final of the MCST vs Holy Grove Christian School. Within the new expanded PVAC Conference of 11 teams, the boys finished 4th behind Washington International, Sandy Spring Friend School and Hebrew Academy.
In recent years, WCA teams have won the following:
2017-2018
- Varsity Boys Soccer Maryland Christian State Tournament Champions
2016-2017
- Varsity Girls Soccer PVAC Division Champions
- Varsity Boys Soccer PVAC Division Champions
- Varsity Boys Soccer PVAC Tournament Champions
- Varsity Boys Soccer Maryland Christian State Tournament Runner-Up
2015-2016
- Varsity Boys Soccer Division Champions
2014-2015
- Varsity Softball League Runner-Up
2013-2014
- Varsity Volleyball Conference Runner-Up
- Varsity Boys Soccer Conference Runner-Up
- Varsity Softball League Championship
2012-2013
- Varsity Girls Soccer Conference Championship
2011-2012
- Varsity Softball League Championship
- Varsity Volleyball League Championship
- Middle School Boys Basketball League Championship
2010-2011
- Varsity Boys Soccer League Championship
- Middle School Baseball League Championship
2009-2010
- Varsity Boys Basketball League Championship
- Varsity Girls Basketball MCST D1 Championship
- Varsity Girls Basketball League Championship
- Varsity Softball League Championship
- Middle School Boys Basketball League Championshi
2008-2009
- Varsity Boys Basketball MCST D1 Championship
- Varsity Softball League Championship
See also
- Olney, Maryland
- Christian Schools International
- Montgomery County, Maryland
References
External links
- http://washingtonchristian.org
- http://wca-blog.org
- https://www.facebook.com/washington.christian.academy
- https://twitter.com/WashChrAcademy
- http://csionline.org