To Advance God’s Kingdom by equipping students to submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in all areas of life.
Mission Statement
Smith Preparatory Academy exists to work with parents in their pursuit of rearing children who believe the Gospel. We instruct, encourage, and inspire students to be academically-minded, thinking Christians, who live consistently under the authority of God’s word, correctly interpreting the entire created order from a Biblical Worldview.
Philosophy
Smith Preparatory Academy is dedicated to the worship, service, and obedience to God the Father, Jesus Christ his Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe that Christian education prodeeds from the Word of God, which provide the only framework from within which man can properly evaluate this world. All pursuits in the various academic disciplines are evaluated in the light of God’s revelation, both in creation and in Scripture, with the former being interpreted by the latter, Our philosophy is that culture is the externalization of religion, and that our duty as Christian educators is to see that it is ‘true religion’ which is external.
The Classical model of education is a skills driven educational philosophy that has three distinct emphases — A Grammar stage, a Dialectic stage, and a Rhetoric stage — commonly referred to as the Trivium. These stages follow along with the intellectual development of the child, which is the great genius of this paradigm. At no time should we think that these stages are mutually exclusive. Rather, at all times we wish for students to become lifelong learners of new information, look a the issues critically, and seek clear biblical answers to questions and issues that confront them.
Statement of Faith
Smith Preparatory Academy does not have any one denominational affiliation. Yet, the school and its teachers are orthodox, evangelical, and protestant. Smith Prep embraces and adopts both the essential truth of orthodox Christianity, as articulated in the ecumenical councils of Nicea, Constantinople, and Chalcedon, and the systems of doctrine expressed in the creeds of the Protestant Reformation, including the Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, the Second London Confession of 1689, the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, and the Westminster Confession of Faith.
