Lake Pointe Academy

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-National Association of University Model Schools

History
University Model Schooling (UMS) began with a group of parents in Arlington, TX desiring the best for their children.  They worked together to develop an educational alternative combining the best of traditional and home schools resulting in the UMS model.  The same vision, that inspired the founding families of the UMS concept, has spread to the Lake Wylie area.  God’s timing and events have confirmed God’s direction, guidance, and provision to fulfill this vision of ministering to local families.  With God’s confirmations, Lake Pointe Academy, a University Model School, has formed in Lake Wylie, South Carolina.

Lake Pointe Academy (LPA) is a unique Classical Christian school that utilizes a university-type schedule and a teacher-parent instructional approach to produce a high level of academic achievement while enabling strong ties between parents and their children. The school is a concrete expression of a new educational model called University-Model Schooling (UMS) in which two proven elements of educational success – the professional classroom instruction of a teacher and the caring at-home mentoring of a parent – are combined into a single, unified, college-simulated program.  Other proven elements of the school’s program include character education, low student/teacher ratios, hands-on learning, a strong student work ethic, an effective college-preparatory curriculum, character-building student activities, and servant-minded local operation and management.

Guided by the principles of National Association of University-Model Schools (NAUMS), we are demonstrating that it is indeed possible for both parents and teachers to effectively work together for the common goal of providing God’s children with a high quality Christian education that is both cost effective and strengthening to families.