High School
The Academic Goal for Shalom High School Students
Our High School educational program is designed to cultivate academic excellence, spiritual maturity, and purposeful direction for every student. With a dynamic blend of core subjects, career exploration, and faith-based formation, we prepare students not only for graduation, but for lives of consequence and impact.
- Develop customized learning pathways that allow each student to select course options aligned with their interests, strengths, and future goals, ensuring they are well prepared for the next stage of their education and career.
- Explore career interests through internships, service learning, dual enrollment courses, and early college options, helping them make informed decisions about their future education and career pathways.
Career Pathways - What will you choose?
Choose from 7 career pathways to help plan courses that prepare students for life after high school.
Engineering, Manufacturing, & Technology
Business, Management, & Administration
Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Human Resources & Human Services
Health Science Technology
Arts, Communication & Information Systems
Ministry, Theology & Nonprofits
Earning College Credit
We partner with accredited colleges and universities so that our students can earn college credit while still in high school via our dual enrollment program.
- Off campus options around our community that include Shippensburg University, Wilson College, Hagerstown Community College, Messiah University, and more.
- We offer flexible options that include college classes right here on our own campus that are taught by our teachers or professors from a local college.
- We also offer online options and we are able to work with a student's schedule so they can attend classes at local colleges and universities.
- We are a Pathways Partner with Messiah University - granting students many options to earn college credit while in high school.
- These flexible options allow students to customize their experience and begin their postsecondary path early at a more affordable rate.
Franklin County Career & Technology Center (FCCTC)
It is also our goal to assist our students in choosing the best career or trade based on their interests, strengths, abilities, and gifts that God has given them.
- Our career program is designed into a variety of clusters that will provide specific courses and content to prepare them for their future plans.
- We empower our students to explore a wide range of professional fields through hands-on experiences, internships and targeted programs, and coursework.
- Beginning in 9th grade, we help our students build a personalized high school pathway that aligns with their future goals in partnership with the Franklin County Career & Technology Center
Shalom Internship Program
For on the job training, we partner with local businesses such as JLG, Patriot FCU, Vet Office, Bitner Henry Insurance, Cool Hollow Financial, Samaritan Electric, Square Peg Construction, Growing Tree Preschool, Wellspan Health, WCN Properties, and more.
We also offer a number of opportunities here on our campus with our very own faculty and staff.
These opportunities, open to Juniors and Seniors, are based on strengths, interests, and career aspirations.
Why choose Shalom Christian Academy?
Throughout their high school career, students are immersed in environments that will help them grow academically, professionally and personally.
- Spiritual Growth -central to life at Shalom Christian Academy - students attend daily chapels, Bible classes and service experiences to encourage them to deepen their faith and apply Biblical principles to their everyday lives.
- Service - these opportunities are both on campus and in the local community so that we can help students develop empathy, leadership skills, and a heart for serving others.
- Dedicated Faculty - the heart of our program is a high school team of dedicated educators and staff who will walk alongside our students through every step of their high school career to provide academic support, offer spiritual encouragement and help students identify and pursue their unique strengths.
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