Academies with Homeschool Extension Programs
and Homeschool Co-Ops with Classes
Basic Skills/New Covenant Christian Academy Basic Skills has been providing Christian educational support and encouragement to the home schooling community for over 20 years now. We provide many educational services to help you and your student succeed. Our Diploma Program provides support for families who are home schooling through the middle and high school years with a program advisor, quarterly meetings, and a transcript of work completed. The TRACKS programs is very similar to the Diploma Program, but is aimed at elementary students. In addition we offer short and long term tutoring in the core subject areas, curriculum consultations, and weekly home school management. Home school students can also take advantage of onsite classes, hosted by Basic Skills at our Oregon City campus. In these classes quality instruction is delivered to students in small group settings by qualified teachers, many of whom have substantial home schooling experience. We also now provide westside classes. For more information about all the services Basic Skills provides, please visit our website linked above or call our office at 503-650-5282. (Oregon City/Beaverton)
Classical Conversations Beaverton-Hillsboro Chapter exists to help parents live-out Deuteronomy 6 by providing a place for homeschool students to share learning with a Classical flavor with others in a spiritually encouraging environment. Member families meet together one day each week (currently Tuesdays from 9am to 3:30pm) to provide academic structure, accountability and fun for homeschool families with children grades K4-12. In addition, we provide high school classes through our high school Challenge program. The Challenge program directs parents through transcripts and college prep needs and involves: Saxon Math, Apologia Sciences, classic literature, report writing, exposition, research, debate, logic and rhetoric (always within the framework of history and a Biblical worldview). For more information about the Classical Conversations program, please go to their National website. For more information about the Beaverton-Hillsboro Chapter, please contact Shannon at vielmette@hotmail.com (Beaverton-Hillsboro area)
NEW! Columbia Ridge Christian Education for grades k-12 meets 3 days a week. All parents must participate in some manner, most teach one or more classes. Fees are offset by participation. The school is located at 3223 SE 92nd Ave., Portland. Located in the Open Bible Church. If you are interested in learning more about the school or want to come by and check it out, contact: Jean Freeman at 503-771-3740 or e-mail: crcemailbox@ yahoo.com (SE Portland)
Cor Deo Academy This Christian school is sponsored by SW Hills Baptist Church (9100 SW 135th, Beaverton, OR). Fifty minute classes are taught Monday, Wednesday, Friday in various subjects; Tuesdays and Thursdays students are studying and learning under the parent's supervision at home. Homeschoolers are welcome to take 1 or more classes. High school classes will be expanded next year (2007-2008) to include: English, US History, Biology, Chemistry, Algebra I, II, Geometry, and Greek. (Beaverton)
HIGHDay stands for "Homes Schooling in God's Hands." HIGHDay is a Christian Home schooling co-op that meets at Rolling Hills Community church in Tualatin, but is open to the general Christian homeschooling community. Scroll down the left menu bar on this blogspot for the registration form to apply to this co-op. (Tualatin area)
UPDATED! The Home School Connection seeks to provide a setting for home schooling families to come together and establish connections with one another in order to draw strength, encouragement and a fresh love of learning. Our foremost aim is to put God first in all that we do so that His love will be manifest within and through us. HSC offers a Family School co-op and Connect High classes for children age 5 years through high school. Classes for junior and senior high schoolers are taught by parents and professionals. Please see our website for more information or for High School classes call Megan Nixon at 503 640 6455, or grade school classes call Danell Macy at 503 372 9469. (Hillsboro)
TREC Academy TREC Academy is an acronym meaning Taking Responsibility for Educational Choices. "We are a private Christian alternative school for Jr. High and High school students. TREC Academy is a God inspired creation in response to needs of home schoolers, struggling students and students who wish to excel academically. Our personal beliefs have compelled us to offer an opportunity for learning where family involvement is still practiced and faith in Christ is the backbone of the classroom." TREC offers a variety of enrollment choices including full-time student to "ghost student," those who meet once a week for instruction and lesson planning but are schooled at home by their parents. Adult classes are also offered to teach parents how to school their own children as well as classes for financial and spiritual growth. Visit their website for more information. (Eagle Creek)
Village Home "Village Home is a learning community providing academic and social enrichment and resources for families who choose to home educate." They originally started as a charter-type supplemental school, but in 2006 severed their ties to the public school system and became a for-tuition hybrid co-op/private school geared towards parents who desire to be actively involved with their child's education. They have a large number of educational classes and activities to choose from, which may be purchased individually. Village Home is fully secular with no affiliation to the church whose building it rents. Some of the activities they have sponsored are a Lego Robotics team and chess club, and hosted a Scripps Spelling Bee. They are located at 5150 SW Watson Avenue Beaverton, OR (Beaverton)