Private Schools

Very pleased with the consistent great job by staff and teachers. Clearly focused on preparing my children for adulthood and the future.

Mead Hall "took over" Aiken Preparatory School in 2012, due to Aiken Prep having financial problems and Mead Hall needing a high school (previously K-8). We originally moved to Aiken from out of the country in 2008, specifically for Aiken Prep, so for this change to take place my daughter's 11th grade year was distressing, to say the least. In addition, Mead Hall did not respect the fact that Aiken Prep had not been a religious school, and that many of us chose Aiken Prep specifically for this reason. They started REQUIRING all students to go to chapel every Weds. before lunch, incl. trotting them all up to the front of the church for communion. My daughter was extremely uncomfortable with this. I wrote two times to the Head of the HS and asked that my daughter be allowed to stay in study hall for chapel time, but both times I wrote, my emails were ignored. I decided to handle it by signing her out of school every Weds. for a mother/daughter lunch which worked out well (and there WERE times she indeed used that time for study at the lunch table). For her junior year, nothing was said to us about this arrangement. However, at the end of that school year, right after a ceremony of my daughter being inducted into the NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY, the head of school asked us to come and meet with her in her office. We were informed that if my daughter, the VALEDICTORIAN (!) did not attend chapel her 12th grade year, she would be expelled. This changed Mead Hall's status in my eyes to a cult. It was obvious they knew what an expulsion would do to my daughter's future as well as scholarship possibilities, but they were willing to threaten her with this, in order to force their religious views on her, as well as myself (I was told they wanted me to also become part of the "Mead Hall Community"). So, after uprooting my daughter from her first school, getting her settled and happy at Aiken Prep, she and I decided to withdraw her from Mead Hall, and therefore, she would not be graduating with all the very close friends she has been with during these last very important years of school. It was painstaking and very emotional for my daughter, but we feel we made the right choice. Mead Hall has lowered their education standards in several areas, one of which was Spanish, so my daughter was unable to progress in her language studies and lost the entire 11th grade year. We now have her finishing the one credit she needed to graduate HS online (PIE), and additionally, have her enrolled for Calculus & Spanish at the local college. We know we made the right choice. We had to turn our back on the Valedictorian scholarship, as well as having the Valedictorian distinction on her diploma. However, I know if she stayed in an environment where so little respect was given to a student's individual beliefs, they would have surely squashed her spirit....or at least attempted to. They have lost many of the Aiken Prep students. They could have so easily avoided that by not forcing their policies on the newly acquired AP students and gradually made the changes as the Aiken Prep students graduated and moved on. Eventually, they would be left only with their own MH students and have the Stepford lifestyle they so desire.

great priest and loving parish. lovely people here!

Great place

I am a student at Temple, Temple Christian Academy is a very nice school! If you are interested in coming to a school, come to Temple Christian Academy!!!

My children love going to school here. Safe, Christian environment and I appreciate their push for excellence in all they do.

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