A Unique School

by Leah | Oct 31, 2016 | Uncategorized

Las Cruces Academy (LCA) is a small, independent, non-profit school offering Early-K through 8th grade. We give students an opportunity to grow socially, emotionally and academically. A low student to teacher ratio and individual curriculum challenges every child to...

Privacy Policy

by Leah | Oct 30, 2016 | Uncategorized

Las Cruces Academy uses services from Google (such as analytics, calendar, and maps), which may lead to your information being collected by Google. To see what information Google collects about you, see Google’s privacy policy here. We also use cookies to provide you...

B&N book fair October 2016

by Leah | Oct 29, 2016 | News and Events

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October 28-29, 2016 Book fair at Barnes & Noble.  This is a great partnership with us.  We create a presence at their Mesilla Valley Mall store – this time, on Halloween weekend, with readings, singing by our students, a costume contest, a science demo, crafts,...

EPE grant 2016

by Leah | Oct 17, 2016 | News and Events

October 17, 2016 We’d be remiss not to thank our many donors. We’re proud to acknowledge the El Paso Electric Company for an award to our scholarship fund, as well as LCA parents and board members, whom we’ll give a shout-out to on their own....

Our Parent Committee ready to work

by Leah | Oct 16, 2016 | News and Events

October 16, 2016 Our hard-working Parent Committee meets monthly, works inbetween meetings on tasks they set themselves, and works in subcommittees on such things as revising the LCA website. We have many active members – here’s the group that came for the...

Sunset!

by Leah | Oct 16, 2016 | News and Events

October 16, 2016 It’s not directly academic, other than for an appreciation of nature and beauty – here are pictures from the truly New Mexican sunset of Wednesday, 12 Oct.

Bali & Sulawesi

by Leah | Oct 14, 2016 | News and Events

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October 14, 2016 The presentation on culture and travel in Indonesia – Bali and Sulawesi – went well at 3-4 PM as the last class for all our students.  Board Chair Vince Gutschick had images, videos, stories, and art and artifacts from two trips in 1996 and 2010. ...

Rocketry in the desert

by Leah | Oct 7, 2016 | News and Events

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October 7, 2016 Today, Friday, 7 Oct., the middle-schoolers – Arabella, Frankie, Kira, and Xitlali – went to the desert again with teacher and board chair Dr. Vince Gutschick to launch rockets. They’re testing the hypothesis that the rocket altitude...

Readying for Lego League

by Leah | Sep 27, 2016 | News and Events

September 27, 2016 We’re moving on our participation in the Junior First Lego League, which will be our second year (as a new team) in this robotics program. Teacher Elizabeth Brasher and LCA parent Jessica Houston are the coaches for the team. Board Chair Vince...

Learning hands-on

by Leah | Sep 26, 2016 | News and Events

September 26, 2016 Students learned about molluscs – from pearl oysters to snails to deadly cone shells to octopuses to nautiluses – in science classes today for grades 1-2 and 3-5. Dr. Lou Ellen Kay, our Head of School, showed videos and brought in shells...