Bergen County Christian Academy (BCCA) is a
private Christian school
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located in
Hackensack,
Bergen County,
New Jersey
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, United States. Bergen County Christian Academy was founded in 1973 as Hackensack Christian Schools, a ministry of
First Baptist Church of Hackensack.
[Cheslow, Jerry]
"If You're Thinking of Living In/Hackensack, N.J.; After Long Decline, Downtown Rebounds"
''The New York Times
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'', May 3, 1998. Accessed October 5, 2020. "The city is also home to the Bergen County Vocational and Technical High School and three coed parochial schools -- the Roman Catholic Holy Trinity and St. Francis, both pre-kindergarten to grade 8, and Hackensack Christian School, affiliated with the First Baptist Church, for elementary and high school." Hackensack Christian was reestablished as Bergen County Christian Academy in 2016. The Academy is a member of the
American Association of Christian Schools
The American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) is an American fundamentalist organization based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that unifies individual conservative Protestant schools and statewide Protestant school associations across the countr ...
(AACS), Garden State Association of Christian Schools (GSACS) and Metro Christian Athletic Association (MCAA). Bergen County Christian Academy also accepts international students through the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP and I-20)
As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 101 students (plus 19 in PreK) and 18 classroom teachers (on an
FTE basis), for a
student–teacher ratio of 5.6:1. The school's student body was 37.6% (38) Hispanic, 27.7% (28) White, 13.9% (14) two or more races, 12.9% (13) Asian and 7.9% (8) Black.
[School data for Bergen County Christian Academy]
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 10, 2022.
Athletics
Bergen County Christian Academy offers Junior Varsity and Varsity Soccer, Basketball, and Volleyball.
Co-Ed Junior Varsity teams go from grades 5-8, Varsity Boys from grades 9-12, and Varsity Girls from grades 9-12. The JV Basketball teams go from grades 5-8 and Varsity teams 9-12.
Academics
Bergen County Christian Academy offers multiple instrumental lessons, through the BCCA Conservatory, which include private piano, guitar, drums, multiple woodwind, and vocal lessons to students who wish to learn how to play these instruments.
Some institutions that BCCA graduates have attended are
Berklee College of Music (Boston),
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
New York University (NYU),
Liberty University
Liberty University (LU) is a private Baptist university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia ( Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Lib ...
,
Cedarville University, and many more.
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1973 establishments in New Jersey
Christian educational institutions
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Hackensack, New Jersey
Private elementary schools in New Jersey
Private middle schools in New Jersey
Private high schools in Bergen County, New Jersey
Schools in the Garden State Association of Christian Schools