What is the Holy City
Academy?
The Holy City Academy (HCA) is a hybrid school operating as a homeschool co-op. We provide instruction in the academic core of mathematics, language arts, science, and history.
Our goal is to support parents in their spiritual and academic journey of training their children in the way they should go, producing children with hope who have the skills to articulate the reason for their hope and to navigate this world according to biblical principles.
Mission
To create a community school program that provides a framework for education incorporating parental interaction with their students and with the curriculum as well as providing classroom experiences for the child.
Curriculum
The HCA uses the Good and the Beautiful curriculum, a Christian homeschool curriculum that emphasizes family, God, character, and wholesome literature. You can learn more about the Good and the Beautiful here goodandbeautiful.com.
Weekly Schedule
Our curriculum is designed for a four-day school week. Students will meet at HCA for in class instruction three days a week Tues. - Thurs. from 8:45am - 11:45am, with parents providing the fourth day of instruction at home. The fifth weekday will be free for parents to design educational experiences for their students.
Grades
HCA is currently available for Preschool - 5th grade. Class sizes are limited and registration will be closed when classes are full.
Tuition
Tuition is $225 per month or $2,025 per year. A discounted rate of $200 per month is available for attendees of Calvary Chapel Charleston who are currently serving in a ministry of the church. Additional students from the same family will receive a 10% discount on tuition. .
Location
HCA is a ministry of Calvary Chapel Charleston. We are located at 8780b Riverse Ave STE 200, North Charleston, SC 29406.
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Meet our Founder
Kelly received her Bachelor of Elementary Education from Metropolitan State University in 1990. She founded Moriah Christian School with her best friend and fellow educator Cindi Krebs that year and began what would become a thirty-year career educating her eight children. She was the elementary director at Moriah Christian School for thirteen years. It was an “umbrella school,” which allowed parents to register their homeschool students, provided guidance for parents choosing curriculum, reviewed record-keeping, provided feedback quarterly, offered weekly classes, monthly field trips and support group meetings for parents, standardized testing, and extras such as field day and yearbooks. She graduated with her Master of Educational Leadership from Charleston Southern University in 2022. She is the wife of pastor Richard Perea. They and their family moved to Charleston in January of 2007 to plant Calvary Chapel of Charleston and continue their homeschooling journey with the six youngest of the Perea children.