News
World culture class
Board Chair Vince Gutschick is a fellow world traveler with Head of School Lou Ellen Kay, and their son David and his wife Yi. Vince is now offering the courses World Culture 3&4 and 5-8. Here's a happy scene at Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo: Each week Vince shares a...
Math club
The Fall 2021 semester has been very busy and productive with in-person learning under very good precautions against COVID-19. After-school activities are thriving. The theater club and Lego club are back in operation! We'll have pictures and a story soon....
CP-3 notes extreme temps
Part 2 here is for long-time Python programmers in class CP-3 This should be a very interesting project: * We should get results that let us predict how often the temperatures in Las Cruces (really, in a place nearby, the Jornada Range Headquarters) reach or...
Our new Science Club sucks the air of out of a sphere
New this academic year is the Science Club! This week, the students engaged with Dr. Vince Gutschick, teacher and Board Chair, who (literally) rolled out our vacuum pump, along with a large bell jar, several balloons, and a small Magdeburg sphere. We watched as a...
Sample weekly newsletter, 2021
Great news of the 2020-21 Annual Fund
Our Annual Fund 9 finished on June 30th with generous donations from 23 families, 5 businesses, the board, a former teacher, and 4 long-time friends of the school – a heartfelt “Thank you” goes out to all of them, and to donors yet to be. We're above our initial goal;...
Halloween fun, 2021
Halloween fun for the students, October 29th and 31st, 2021 We had a Halloween party on Friday, October 29th. There were many imaginative costumes among our students. Teachers Katie, Lou Ellen, and Yulin led the younger students outside to draw Halloween designs on...
Noted teachers at the LCA
At the Las Cruces Academy, our non-profit K-8 private school in Mesilla, we have good news. We’re happy that Vince Gutschick, our Board Chair, teacher, and Deputy Treasurer, has been cited as standing in the current top 2% of scientists in the...
New Mexico Supreme Court Justices visit the LCA
Las Cruces Academy was graced by the visit of three justices of the New Mexico Supreme Court on Sept. 16, 2021 as Justices C. Shannon Bacon, Julie Vargas and Briana Zamora visited the school. The justices fielded questions from 24 students in grades 3 to 8 as the...