Last school year 2016 -2017 we registered a little over 500 students and finished the year with about 450 students.  We lost a little over 50 students through the course of the year to moving, dropping out and changing schools.  We lost a ton of 9th graders because a popular child wanted to go back to public school and all the friends followed.  This was rather difficult for us as we were left with just 10 kids in class with half of them coming from the orphanage.

Last year was our first 12th grade class with just 12 students.  Our teachers pounded them all year with information and really focusing on the national test.  We had I think 7 teachers for the 12 students to cover all their subjects.  We knew that this class passing their national exams was going to be very important for the future of the schools growth and maybe even the future of the high school.  There was a couple times a couple people were thinking maybe we should back down and stay in elementary and make it easy on us.  Unfortunately backing down isn’t apart of the vision and so not an option.

Well as we shared previously the national testing was a wonderful success for the students and school with 12 % higher than the national average.  It left a title wave of registrations this year.

Our little school’s impact was felt nation wide, even still as we have been “asked” (told) by the education department to demon straight how we are doing what we do to achieve the success we achieved.   I feel this will be a moment where we can give Christ all honor and glory to the public school system.  55 other schools will be represented there to hear what we have to say, so we’re going to say it.  This is to happen Mid January.

Anyways this school year is filling the impact of last terms success with a massive increase in registrations.  We’ve enrolled over 180 children this past month with nearly every class at capacity.   We’ve chosen not to register 11 and 12th graders this year that weren’t really smart.  We didn’t want to have such a good test this year and drop dramatically in 2018, that wouldn’t be too great.  So this year we’ve added 2 more classes now up to 21 and we’ve just registered our 638th student yesterday.

We’ve opened a second 4th class and because registration numbers were so high we opened a second  5th grade as well.

We’re running our normal special ed. classes in the morning and afternoons for children registered at the public school but can’t read and write.  We also have 2 after school English class running as well as a Chinese class.

We still have construction going to complete 3 more classrooms and moving the office from the old campus to the new campus.

We’ve a lot going on but we hope to have all this construction come to a close late Jan. prayerfully.

Oh, and staff we we’re at 39 staff last year and now we’re employing 45.   This is an important number we can often over look.  That’s a lot of families that are being effected by our employment and well as the fact that they are the ones actually doing all the good work.
A couple months ago we baptized a lot of the teachers, I think 9 of them but I forget.

2 weeks ago I think it was we had another baptism 6 children, 4 girls and 2 boys.  A brother and sister who are neighbor’s of our’s that have been coming to church a while were a part of this little group.  I’d guess to say

I’m very, very proud of the school, but more proud of what and awesome avenue it’s become to do ministry through.

 6 new bathrooms going in.

 5th grade A and B class being dry walled on the left.  Roof will cover be covered but walls left open for morning gathering and flag.

6th grade and new office to be added at the end of the pad to the right, again leaving an open space between the two buildings for the next year.   Maybe a photo when it’s done shows better than I can explain.

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