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Open house, Tuesday, October 8th
Open house: We invite the public to visit the school on Thursday, May 9th, from 11 AM to 1 PM. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, observe students in classes and at play, and talk with our great teachers. We're proud of what we can offer for the...
Moon Festival on the Plaza
Saturday, 28 September 2019. Our students attracted the crowd at the band shell on the Downtown Plaza, as they sang five songs in Chinese. They youngest group, kindergarten through 2nd grade, came first, with the longer-experienced 3rd- through 8th-graders...
K-8 students join the worldwide Climate Strike
Saturday, 20 September 2019: A week's learning, writing, and drawing culminated in 16 students in grades K through 8 being out on the sidewalk in front of the Mesilla Town Hall holding posters they had made. They were inspired by Greta Thunberg, the courageous...
Open house, September
On Tuesday, September 10th: The Las Cruces Academy is holding an open house, 8-10 AM and 5:30-6:30 PM, at the school, 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla. You can meet with our Head of School, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, in the morning observe students in classes and at play,...
The Kids Are Not Alright: the LCA Difference
A recent opinion piece published in the New York Times lamented the lack of “free play and childhood independence” critical for unstructured growth and overall happiness of students in most schools. "For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of...
Labor Day 2019
It’s Labor Day. We salute our hardworking teachers – Elizabeth Brasher (English, writing, music, social studies, Assistant Head of School, theater and engineering clubs); Arielle Lane (early kinder and kindergarten, 1&2 reading, fitness, garden club, overseeing...
New academic year, added teacher
The new academic year starts on August 8th! We’re proud to announce a new Spanish teacher, Yolanda Guevara. Yolanda just rejoined us for the upcoming 2019-20 academic year, having taught Spanish in our first year of operation. She stepped out to meet family needs and...
Teaching cursive writing, and science at the same time
Cursive writing isn’t a lost skill at the Las Cruces Academy. Head of School Lou Ellen Kay teaches cursive to students in 1st grade and up. They can then take notes more rapidly than by printing, they can read historic documents, and they can develop personal,...
Welcoming new students for 2019-2010
There are still open places in kindergarten and grades 3-8; grades 1&2 are projected to be nearly full. What are we offering to our students? We provide a high-quality education at the level that is both supportive and challenging. We assess each student and...
The 2019-2020 year is just around the corner!
How did LCA students wrap up 2019? Our students shone in the Iowa Assessments, averaging individually in the 88th percentile nationally. LCA students who tested in both 2018 and 2019 showed an average gain of 1.7 grades per year. We also had 7 students in grades 2-7...