2025 School Calendar Tweaks

Many times when I meet someone from the community or chat with a parent I get the question, “How is the school year going?”

And my answer almost without hesitation is, “We are having a great year. God is really blessing our school every day, and so many good things are happening.” And I mean that with all my heart. I am so blessed to be the headmaster of Providence Classical Christian School, and I love what I do. Our school truly has many good things going on.

We are continuing to pursue making the Crosspointe Church campus our forever home, and we hope to move into a capital campaign soon. We have growing families (literally growing – we are in the midst of a baby boom!) whose children are making strides intellectually and spiritually every day. We have a new approach to assessment and reporting student progress in the Grammar School that is taking shape and doing its job well. We have an Upper School whose culture continues to deepen and mature as teachers cultivate relationships with students and as student leaders set an excellent pace for their peers.

I could go on.

But I must say that while we are having a great school year, it has been an unusual one! We’ve had a string of disruptions that God sovereignly placed in our path:

• Plumbing problems in the Lower School (that I think we’ve finally solved)
• A hurricane (that thankfully only caused us to miss school days – so many people were affected so much more dramatically)
• The Biolab incident
• Two episodes of wintry weather

Any one of these things is not that big a deal, but when you string them all together, it makes for quite a run of starts and stops. And these interruptions add up, unfortunately.

Because of Hurricane Helene and January’s snow, we ‘ve missed a total of 6 school days this year. That adds up to a lot of contact hours – more than a full week of instruction. We’ve built the school calendar to accommodate some loss of instructional time, but a full week is a lot.

So in an effort to make up some of those contact hours, we are adjusting the school calendar in a few ways that we hope will both add meaningful contact hours back to the year and also be manageable for your family. I know that there will be a few families who already made plans based on our published calendar that can’t be changed, and that’s understandable. But I also hope that the vast majority of our families can adjust to these changes:

• February 14 and April 17, which were scheduled to be noon release days, will now be regular school days that release at 3:00 p.m.
• March 14, which was scheduled to be a day for professional development and parent-teacher conferences, will now be a regular school day.
• April 18, which was scheduled to be the first day of Easter Vacation, will now be a regular school day. Easter Vacation will be April 21-25.

These adjustments will add 3 days’ worth of contact hours to the remaining school calendar. With the parent-teacher conference day being replaced by a school day, I encourage you to still schedule conferences with your children’s teachers as they are available.

In all these changes I’m thankful for two things. First, God is sovereign and is in control of our lives, with what appears to us as disruptions actually being His plan for blessing us. And second, I’m thankful for your trust and flexibility as we move forward with new plans.

God is good – all the time!