Another year!

by Leah | Jul 8, 2019 | News and Events

The new academic year: Classes start on August 8th, coincident with the LCPS schedule. We’re looking forward to another very successful year for our students in grades early kindergarten through 8. We’re exceptionally strong in languages (English, Spanish,...

Open house for July

by Leah | Jul 8, 2019 | News and Events

11 July 2019: It’s open house time again, as every 2nd Thursday (other than in June).  We’ll be at the school from 11 AM to 1 PM.  Come see what we offer to students and to the community.  We’re at 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla, near the Paisano...

Rocketry fun after the school year ended

by Leah | May 28, 2019 | News and Events

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27 May 2019. Alden just finished kindergarten with us.  In the process he picked up a fascination with rockets, to add to his fascination with learning in general.  A week or so before the school year ended, he and four other students went to the field adjoining the...

Top 1%

by Leah | May 27, 2019 | News and Events

The Las Cruces Academy is proud to announce the excellent results from a recent administration of the Iowa Assessments, a widely used set of standardized tests for measuring academic achievement; the LCA students had composite scores in the top 1% of schools across...

Silent auction 2019

by Leah | May 21, 2019 | News and Events

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Food for Thought, our signature community event and fundraiser is coming on Wednesday, May 29th at the school, 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla.  At each Food for Thought event we have a silent auction of items donated by businesses, LCA families, and friends of the...

Reading the Odyssey and loving it

by Leah | May 20, 2019 | News and Events

Fourth- through eighth-graders reading the Odyssey and loving it! We are an academy, in the fullest sense.

Great performances by our students

by Leah | May 16, 2019 | News and Events

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11 May 2019: The end-of-term performance at our school brought out fine singing and dancing by our students from kindergarten through 8th grade.  English, Spanish, and Chinese were all featured, in classics, folk songs, and new creations.  Kudos to the students and to...

Signature event

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

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Coming up quickly, Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 6 PM onward:  Food for Thought is our signature community event and fundraiser.  We have 11 interesting people at 10 different tables, ready to share discussions on 10 different topics over dinner, with guests who buy tickets...

Student performances

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

Coming up right away, Saturday, 11 May 2019: Students present our end-of-term performance.  They’ve been practicing songs, skits, and dances cast in English, Spanish, Chinese, and (we’ll see) maybe other languages!  Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers, and board...

Archery anew

by Leah | May 10, 2019 | News and Events

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Wednesday, 8 May 2019 and onward for a couple of weeks: Archery is back.  This skill brings discipline, development of motor skills, friendly competition, and fun.  We thank the New Mexico Game and Fish Department and Jeremy Lane for the loan of the equipment.  Head...