About New Covenant Christian School
“… all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God’s Will.” – Catherine E. Beecher
Our Mission
We exist to glorify God by assisting parents in training their children to be Biblically-minded servant-leaders through a Reformed, Christ-centered, classical education.
Our Vision
We envision New Covenant Christian School graduates who have a Biblical worldview that encompasses all of life and who are equipped and eager to take their place as servant-leaders in the world. As classically educated men and women with a life-long love of learning, they possess broad knowledge, clear reasoning, true wisdom, and the ability to communicate truth persuasively. In every area of life, they recognize, appreciate, and spread truth, goodness, and beauty to the glory of God.
Our School
New Covenant Christian School provides a comprehensive, classical education for children from preschool years through high school.
Co-op Preschool - located at New Covenant Presbyterian Church
– 3’s morning and afternoon sessions; 8:50 – 11:20 and 12:30-3:00; Tuesday and Thursday
– 4’s morning and afternoon sessions; 8:50 – 11:20 and 12:30-3:00; Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Grammar School – located at New Covenant Presbyterian Church
– Kindergarten – morning
– 1st through 6th grade
Upper School - located at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
- 7th through 12th
Our History
We are celebrating our tenth year!
We have already seen God bless us beyond what we hoped in a very short time. Our school began with a small meeting of interested people in our church’s basement in April of 1996. A year and a half later, a Board of Directors for New Covenant Christian School was formed. Less than a year after forming, this Board of Directors made a commitment to open a school in the fall of 1999. That commitment, like many others along the way, was kept through the provision of God, and the school opened its doors on September 7, 1999. We had just 12 students total in kindergarten and first grade.
During that first year, we were very limited in space, just two classrooms in the church basement. When we added second grade during our second year; to do so we had to build two classrooms in the back of our church’s sanctuary/multipurpose space. This accommodated us for the next two years, while the church added a new education wing to the building. In the fall of 2002, with the addition of fourth grade, we moved into the new wing. In 2007, with the addition of ninth grade, we relocated our seventh through ninth grades to a new Upper School location at Calvary Baptist Church in Bel Air. In 2009, we moved the Upper School from Calvary Baptist to The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Abingdon and added our first eleventh grade class. We are very excited to have our first graduating class in 2011!
In 2006, New Covenant Christian School merged operations with New Covenant Co-op Preschool.
Our school has grown and developed in more ways than simply adding classroom space and students. We have broadened our school community to include families from all over Harford County. We have enriched our program to offer more service opportunities and more extracurricular activities. We have also continued to improve our academic program every year until it is one of the most rigorous in the area. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we have continued to seek better ways of partnering with parents to make sure we are training up the whole child to live the whole of his life for the glory of God. We have adopted the slogan, “Sharpening minds. Shepherding hearts. Shaping lives.” to capture the heart of our school.