Heritage Christian Academy

I attended HCA my junior year and to be honest it was one of the worst schooling experiences i've had so far. speaking from experience of being in alternative school, filled with drug crazed fiends or "ghetto" rockwall kids who just cause ruckus. even then the environment and teachers seemed to care more about their students and the material they were required to teach, rather then heritage. while attending this school I encountered several teachers using their high authority to get their way. i was slandered several times with racial slurs by TEACHERS... constantly being put in the "wrong" when everyone else saw I was in the right. I feel like this school was a huge waste of time for sub par teaching, with the exception of a few teachers, but overall schooling was very poor and not thoroughly taught. Highly do not recommend enrolling your kid in here unless you have 13k to waste just for your child to be judged and not welcomed at a "Christian school". (speaking from personal experience).

I would try to type my thoughts, but I don't think I could do it any better than what Sarah Walton typed. I don't know if she was a real teacher or not, I never took dual enrollment, but that doesn't matter. What she wrote is 100% the truth. As usual, HCA threatened to "take action" and try to take it down, like they do with everything. If they were honest and had no reviews moved, they were not be near a perfect 5. As a former student, I just finished freshman year of college, and will tell you I am behind in everything in comparison to other students. HCA gave no education, but it did give a lot of stories. I do not regret everything that happened there, I had some very fun great years there, but no educational ones.

This is a amazing christ-centered school with great education and wonderful staff

I am reviewing the High School in particular. The first thing I want to do is point out I was extremely tempted to make a Google account with my name when reviewing this school, due to fear of backlash. However, I'm already pre enrolled in another school and feel safe to post this. HCA poses itself as an upscale, and Christian school. The facility is on par with a below average public school. Compared to a public Rockwall High school, it's honestly worse. I won't lie; it's not awful in this aspect, but if you're going to be spending 10k+ on a school, there are several other nicer private schools to waste your money on. The next thing to deal with is the Christianity. The school claims it hires high quality, christian teachers and the school is all around a Christian place. I would say maybe 1/2 of the kids are actual Christians. Maybe. Think about this: a kid gets in trouble with his parents for drugs or something. They want them to hang with a better crowd and go to a better school. Where do they send them? HCA. During my time there almost half of the "upstanding christian teens" that attended the school regularly smoked weed, drank or popped pills. And, on countless occasions during the school year I heard of these things happening during school and of course at school. Just because its a Christian school doesn't mean there's no kid selling weed there. There is. On top of that, several people I know were literally harassed by a teacher, one student was made fun of for their race by a teacher and the school literally did nothing. Another teacher was fired because she had a party at her house where she supplied beer to kids and let them drink. The school also makes students attend chapel. I doubt most students could tell you about more than one or two during the whole year. No one listens to them. Kids literally pass liquor around during them. There's been a fight during chapel, and that's probably the most memorable thing to ever happen in there. Some small things to add: so many days are spent doing literally nothing. When a sport is gone for competition, every teacher drops every thing, and the students get a free day, which seemed to happen at least 2 times a month. There's also a huge amount of study halls, as there are next to no elective courses. During block schedule days, one of my friends had study halls for 3/4 the day. If you want your kid to basically attend a sub par public school with 20 kids in their class, send them to HCA. If they don't like it, they can leave like 1/3 of the junior class did last year. I fully expect to be threatened to take down this review by the admin.

This is a great school and has a very christ centered education.