The mission of Zion Preparatory Academy is to ensure academic excellence in a loving, supportive environment where every child receives individual attention and instruction.

Zion Prep espouses a simple philosophy: every child is somebody to be loved, to be taught, and to be valued as a unique individual with their own individual gifts. 

The founders' vision was to provide an open-door policy, welcoming children who, for lack of financial resources and/or a nurturing support system, could not attend a traditional private school.  Zion Prep does not require that a child pass admittance tests to be accepted like other private schools.  On the contrary, Zion accepts every child who wants to attend.

At Zion Prep Academy, it is our goal to help students realize their fullest potential, achieve personal integrity and become responsible, contributing members of society.  To this end,  Zion Prep is a school based on standards. On the WASL and ITBS standardized tests, our students are performing at or above the levels of their peers.

We are very proud that 85% of our kindergartners are reading at a 1^st grade level and the rest of our students are reading at or above grade level. Our faculty strives to enhance our students’ academic performance on a daily basis. To ensure they have the tools they need, we offer extensive teacher training.

Zion Prep's approach includes a preschool program for one-year olds through pre-kindergartners, an academic program for children in kindergarten through eighth grade, and before and after school day care beginning at 6 AM and ending at 6 PM. 

Since Zion Prep's leaders believe strongly in balancing a child's need for a solid education with the family's need for involvement and ownership, every family in the pre-k, elementary, and middle school pays between $4,900 and  $7,000 annually in tuition, depending on their financial situation. This tuition structure allows families who could not otherwise afford a private, alternative education the chance to provide their children the opportunity to learn at Zion Prep.  The tuition a family pays is less than a fourth of the total cost of educating that child, the remaining more than three-fourths comes from Zion’s annual fund raising efforts.   

We are proud of our current students as well as our alumni.  Many alumni are young adults now either immersed in higher educational pursuits or in the work force.  They often speak on behalf of the firm foundation they received at Zion Prep, where every one cared and believed in them.  That foundation gave them the confidence to pursue many rewarding challenges.

Zion Preparatory Academy……   truly The Miracle on 32^nd Street!

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