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First Wesleyan Christian School offers kindergarteners a safe, loving Christian environment. With small classes of typically fourteen to sixteen students, kindergarteners learn at an accelerated rate in our phonics-based reading curriculum, music, art activities, small computer classes, science, social studies, and other enrichment activities.
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All K-8 classes also have five additional part-time teachers for art, computer, music, P.E., Spanish, library, and/or home economics.
94%
The combined average of local public school students at or above grade level is approximately 42%.
93rd
All schools nationally, public and private combined, averaged at the 50th percentile.
FWCS's kindergarten is accelerated in its reading instruction, as well as the depth in which it covers subjects such as science and social studies. Many of FWCS kindergarteners enter kindergarten with the same level of reading skills that many public school students possess when they graduate from kindergarten. By January most FWCS kindergartners are easily reading sentences like "Jake baked a cake." By graduation in late May, most FWCS kindergarteners are reading second grade words such as splash, scream, etc.
On the TerraNova3 Achievement Test, FWCS's kindergartners consistently score above the 95th percentile and/or above the 1.7 grade equivalent level in reading. These scores mean that FWCS students score higher than 94% of all students, both public and private, who take the same test, and they read test material as well as the average student does during his/her seventh month of first grade. By the end of first grade, the same FWCS students are usually independent readers at the third and fourth grade reading levels. Although the school doesn't stress math instruction as intensively as it does reading, FWCS's kindergarteners still score around the 90th percentile in math. FWCS's modern, colorful math texts more than exceed national standards for kindergarten classes.
