Pinewood Christian Academy is a co-ed private school

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

 located in the small town of Bellville, Georgia

Bellville, Georgia

Bellville is a city in Evans County, Georgia, United States. The population was 130 at the 2000 census, it is also home to Pinewood Christian Academy.-Geography:Bellville is located at ....

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Academics

Pinewood has a calendar year of 180 days and each school day is 7 hours. Approximately 650 students grades K4 through 12 attend the Academy. Pinewood offers many advanced classes and generally posts high SAT and ITBS average scores. Pinewood has produced a number of professionals who have attended Harvard, Northwestern University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt,and University of Chicago.

History

Pinewood Christian Academy was founded in 1970 by a group of dedicated individuals who wished to have an independent school with a Christian emphasis.

Campus

The campus consists of six buildings, including two gyms, a cafeteria, offices, a library, a football stadium, and a lower school building.

Athletics

Pinewood Christian Academy's athletic team is the Pinewood Patriots and sports teams include:

• Football
  American football
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• Basketball
  Basketball
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• Softball
  Softball
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• Track
  Track and field
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• Tennis
  Tennis
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• Baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
  
• Cheerleading
  Cheerleading
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• Competitive Cheerleading
• Golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
  

External links

• www.gopca.org -- Official web site
• Pinewood Christian Academy's web page at *Private School Review