North Raleigh Christian Academy - History

History

North Raleigh Christian Academy was founded in May 1996 by Dr. Sonny L. Sherrill and a group of teachers and students from Friendship Christian School in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The original site of the school was Mt. Vernon Baptist Church located in Raleigh, NC. In its first year, NRCA had 400 students in K–12th grade at its "Falls campus" at Mt. Vernon. In 1998, the school began a second campus with K-6th grade at Open Door Baptist Church where over 140 students arrived its first year. Open Door Baptist supported the "Durant campus" as it grew to over 250 students in three years. Total enrollment at both campuses reached 868 by 2001.

With the purchase of 30 acres (120,000 m2) on Perry Creek Road in 1999, the school's Board of Governors began plans for the "Perry Creek campus." Ground was broken in the fall of 2000 for the new campus. On August 17, 2002, the K–12th grade "Perry Creek campus" was dedicated. Two days later on August 19, 2002, over 1,100 students entered the doors of the academy. Today, the school continues to grow with over 1,450 students, and is now the largest private K–12 school in North Carolina.

In order to facilitate increased demand and future growth, the school has recently added two additional wings to the school, which have provided additional classrooms, music and dance space, and a third gymnasium. Increased parking space and a soccer complex were also added. The project was completed by the start of the 2010–11 school year and has increase enrollment capacity to 1,800 students.