Our Curriculum
A traditional Christian approach to education from PK4 through 12th grade — taught by certified teachers in small, well-ordered classrooms.
A traditional Christian approach, PK4 through Grade 12
With a traditional Christian approach to education, Abeka supplies schools with outstanding curriculum, textbooks, and support materials for students in PK–12th grade. Their experienced writers and researchers conduct primary research in their fields to provide students with superior knowledge. Visit the Abeka website for more information on the Scope and Sequence of all grades taught.
- Bible, language, subject matter and character in every grade
- Certified teachers who care about your child’s success
- Small class sizes for personalized attention
- Academic excellence with a focus on preparing students for college and beyond
An opportunity to stand at the elbow of a master teacher
The Abeka curriculum offers an opportunity to stand at the elbow of a master teacher. They offer a chance to observe master teaching techniques at work and learn the methods by imitation, the only way one really learns to be a master of any art. Teachers who learn this way are soon able to add their own ideas to the teaching process and thus become masterful teachers.
Classrooms using the Abeka materials and methods are well-organized, highly efficient, interesting, and challenging classrooms. Their purpose is not socialization, self-awareness, self-gratification, democratization, or adjustment to environment. Their purpose is to educate students in the Bible, language, subject matter, and character.
Bible
Scripture is taught daily and every subject is viewed in Christian perspective.
Language
Phonics, reading, grammar and writing taught in a disciplined, traditional way.
Subject matter
Traditional math, science, history and literature, with facts taught and drilled.
Character
Trained through consistent discipline and the teaching of traditional subject matter.
Doing right because it is right to do right
The teachers do not teach character in an abstract, separate way. Rather, character is taught through consistent discipline; the teaching of traditional subject matter; reading from the great literature of the world; teaching the great characters of history that are worth emulating; and teaching traditional math, grammar, etc., in a disciplined, traditional way. Character training is seen as training children to do right because it is right to do right, not as encouraging children to concentrate on their feelings, needs, conflicts, and attitudes. Right character training leads a child to forget himself, not to concentrate on himself.
The teacher leads, and every minute counts
The students do not determine the curriculum, the pacing, the discipline, or the methods. These decisions are made by the teacher, who is a confident, well-trained, eager, willing servant of the Lord, working on the premise that a job worth doing is worth doing well and that in the education of children as well as in all of life, time is to be redeemed and every minute counts. Teachers using Abeka materials and methods are in control of the situation. They know that they are the teachers and that the students are the learners. They know what students need to learn, and they do not hesitate to teach facts and drill facts in order that the facts may be remembered.
Master teachers are concerned with teaching selected facts, the connection between the facts, and the interpretation of the facts. Therefore, they are acquainting the students with the great thoughts of the great minds of the past—especially of the era since 1500 during which the Bible has been of tremendous influence on modern science, literature, philosophy, art, and culture in general. The facts taught in the lower grades take on tremendous meaning in the upper grades as they are viewed in Christian perspective.
Not building on sand
Teachers using Abeka materials and methods are not building on sand; they are building on the firm foundation of the Word of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and they know that there is an abundance of subject matter that they can and must teach and review and drill and test with confidence.
Copyright © 1981, Dr. Laurel Hicks, A Beka Book Publications. All rights reserved.
Results that follow the method
FCA students consistently achieve solid growth and proficiency in core subjects.
Where these numbers come from. Figures reported by Fishers Christian Academy; see the state dashboard for the official, current record.
Where the curriculum takes our students
Learning at FCA does not stop at the classroom door. Explore the programs that carry our academics into the wider world.
Performance Report
Our accreditation, state assessment results and the official Indiana GPS report card.
View the reportField Trips
Hands-on learning outside the classroom at museums, landmarks and state destinations.
See where we goStudy Abroad
Academic credit, cultural enrichment and service alongside a local church overseas.
Explore the programGolden Knights Athletics
Competitive athletics administered in a Christ-centered environment.
Meet the KnightsReady to see FCA for yourself?
Small classes, certified teachers, and a Christ-centered classroom — come walk the halls and meet the team.
Non-Discrimination Policy. Fishers Christian Academy admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.