The 2019-2020 year is just around the corner!

by Leah | Jul 22, 2019 | News and Events

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...

Stellar results on Chinese test

by Leah | Jul 12, 2019 | News and Events

10 July 2019 This May, seven of our students in grades 2-7 took the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) exam, a test of proficiency in the Mandarin Chinese language including both reading and listening comprehension components. Their performance was stellar: 100% of students...

A break, and sharing culture

by Leah | Jul 8, 2019 | News and Events

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Our webmaster was on travel for a well-earned vacation for a month. We’ll have frequent posts now. Here are several photos from the trip, a cultural tour in Croatia and Greece.  You may well recognize the Acropolis; another image is Meteora, location of the...

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...