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SCA Academic Assessment

Slidell Christian Academy (SCA) utilizes one of the finest achievement and aptitude test combinations available, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills™ (ITBS), and the Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT). The ITBS is a technically advanced assessment tool that can provide valid and reliable data to evaluate and guide students' progress toward meeting academic standards. The  CogAT is an aptitude test that measures a student’s general and specific cognitive abilities. This test measures learned reasoning and problem-solving skills in three areas: verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal, which are closely tied to academic success. The CogAT is often used to identify gifted and talented students. These assessment tools provide a wealth of information for SCA teachers and parents.

These standardized tests serve two primary functions:
1. Helping schools objectively assess students’ academic progress and potential from year to year with quantifiable test data based on accepted models of student academic development.

2. Help teachers find out what students know and are able to do, identifying and helping children who have gaps in their learning experience. Administrators will obtain reliable data to evaluate each student’s progress toward meeting content standards for each grade level. Parents will gain an understanding of their children's strengths and weaknesses, and how they as parents can help.

As nationally normed tests, the ITBS and the CogAT provide comparisons of SCA students with students in public and private schools across the United States. These assessment tests are given each spring to students in kindergarten through the eighth grade, and are free to SCA students.
Slidell Christian Academy was created and exists today as an extension of the body of Christ. It is our goal to provide a safe, challenging environment where each child will experience the joy of learning and succeeding in academics as well as becoming all that God created them to be.
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Slidell Christian Academy, 59334 North Pearl Drive, Slidell, LA 70461  985-641-3785

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In accordance with federal, state and local laws, Slidell Bible Chapel, and its ministries, including, but not limited to, Slidell Christian Academy, admits children of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to children and other individuals involved in its ministries. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in administration of our care or educational policies, admissions policies, hiring or promotional practices or in any of the other Slidell Bible Chapel and associated ministries as long as this can be done within the guidelines laid out for us in God’s one and only revelation of Himself and His will, the totally sufficient, totally inerrant Word of God, the Holy Bible, as interpreted by the elders of this local Church. Furthermore, it is our policy to work with any disability which can be reasonably accommodated. Each disability will be considered on a case-by-case basis as mutually agreed upon by the parent/guardian and the staff and management of Slidell Christian Academy and the Board of Directors of Slidell Bible Chapel.