History
Rodney and Frances Duron, parents of the current chancellor, Denny Duron, founded the school in 1980 as a small kindergarten to eighth grade school. The high school was added as a second campus in 1989. Evangel has grown from 21 graduating seniors in 1990 to over 100 seniors in 2001. The school currently has over 675 students.
As of Spring 2005, Evangel Christian Academy is the only school in Caddo Parish, public or private, to have earned SACS accreditation for grades K-12th. Evangel Christian Academy is a state approved (K(5)-12) school through the Louisiana State Department of Education.
Read more about this topic: Evangel Christian Academy
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right of exemption will be the mother ...”
—Ruth C. D. Havens, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)