Our Community Partners
Parent Organization
Our school is blessed by the involvement of our parents and families. Because of our smaller size, individual parents can make a meaningful impact on our students’ school experience. We meet each semester to discuss upcoming events and organize volunteer teams to coordinate with staff efforts.
All parents are invited to be involved. If you are not receiving email notification of meetings, click here to contact the office.
Documents and Links
Admissions: 2024-2025
Our relationship with your family begins with your educational consultation with our principal where we start to learn about each other. You can also tour the school, meet the teacher, and ask questions.
When you are ready to apply for enrollment, please click on the FACTS link below and fill out the required information.
Additionally those applying for kindergarten and above will enjoy a “GraceWay for a Day” visit in our classrooms, experiencing a preview of life on our tree-lined campus. During this visit, potential students will also be assessed to determine their reading, writing, and math competency.
2024-2025 Student and Family Resources
Scholarships
Financial assistance is available through a variety of scholarships to help our students. These scholarships allow you to have a choice for your child! Click on the links below to find out more about each one.
Other Financial Information
Rules and Regulations
Parent Portal Links
Accreditation
What is accreditation?
Essentially, accreditation is a form of quality control through oversight by an outside organization that ensures that high standards in academics and Christian leadership are met. As a result, GraceWay is in a continual process of evaluation and improvement for the benefit of our students and families.
We are accredited by the League of Christian Schools via its local organization, the Florida League of Christian Schools (FLOCS).
Take the First Step Toward A Faith-Filled Education
“Show me Your Way that I may know You and find Grace in Your sight.” Exodus 33:13
School-Wide Behavior Expectations
Where?
How Do We Stay
SAFE
How Do We Show
RESPECT
How Do We Take
RESPONSIBILITY
Arrival & Departure
Always Walk
Keep hands to yourself
Sit until you are called
Use Quiet Voices
Report to door when your name is called
Report inappropriate behavior to an adult
Classroom
Use material appropriately
Always Walk
Ask to leave classroom
Use Classroom Voice
Follow directions from adult
Listen when others talk
Use kind words
Use care of materials
Use time wisely
Complete work neatly
Observe deadlines for work
Put trash in trash can
Snack & Lunch
Sit while eating
Chew with mouth closed
Speak with mouth empty
Pack Healthy Foods
Put trash in trash can
Bathroom
Always Walk
Keep water in the sink
Keep hands to yourself
One person per stall
Flush when you're done
Keep toilet seat clean
Turn off water faucet
Allow for privacy in stall
Put paper towels in trach can
Report inappropriate behavior
Hallway
Always Walk
Pass friends on the right
Stay with your class
Follow directions from adult
Use quiet voices
Keep hands to yourself
Pick up trash to throw away
Playground
Walk to/from the playground
Keep hands to yourself
Leave nature on the ground
Use kinds words
Line up when called
Include friends in games
Report inappropriate behavior
Frequently Asked Questions
What are your hours?
What is required for enrollment?
When can we apply?
Open enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year is open January 22, 2024. Applications are then accepted through rolling admissions on a space-available basis. Educational consultations can be scheduled anytime. Our annual Art Show and Open House in the winter is a great event for new and returning families to attend.
Is there financial assistance?
Do you teach the doctrine of a specific denomination?
Does our family have to be Christian to attend GraceWay?
Our Mission is: Preparing students for academic success while glorifying God through faith in action. One way that we live out our faith is to share it with others that they may come to love Jesus, too, and accept Him as their savior. Developing and strengthening our students’ faith is one of our favorite aspects of life at our school.
How is faith integrated into students' day?
Our teachers integrate a biblical worldview into their teaching and make the most of teachable moments to help students connect the Bible to real life. All students have Bible class as a part of the curriculum. Family Chapel for all students is held each Friday.
How can I learn about your preschool and K-8th Programs?
Do you offer extra-curricular programs?
Do your students take standardized tests?
The double-edged sword of standardized testing. Schools that don’t use standardized testing have no idea how their students are growing compared to their regional and national peers. However, it is possible to over focus on standardized tests. At GraceWay, we test beginning in third grade as required by scholarship grantors and our accreditation. Test scores are used along side classroom grades and observations of learning behaviors to form the big picture of our students’ progress. We use MAP, Measures of Academic Progress, from NWEA.
How do you integrate technology into the learning experience?
Many families struggle to keep a balance in terms of how much technology their children are exposed to in today’s culture. We want technology to be meaningful and engaging – not just one or the other. Our students use technology in increasing increments as they grow older. Our youngest students may use a paint program to draw on a computer or the teacher may look up more information on a tablet about an animal they learned about that day. Our oldest students use laptops or Chromebooks for Google Classroom, math and grammar apps, to take book quizzes, and to create audio/visual presentations. Students in between have access to tablets and Chromebooks for age-appropriate learning applications. All kindergarten through middle school classes have SmartBoards for teacher and student use.
How do students learn about service to others?
We are called by God to serve others. We view our work with our students as a service to God, and we want to encourage that spirit in them as well. Every year we have service projects such as caroling at assisted living residences, conducting food or toiletry drives for The Genesis 7 Project, dry goods drives for a local foster parent organization, Operation Christmas Child, write letters to service men and women, and various supply drives for hurricane victims.
What is your homework policy?
Preschool: Please read with your child daily. This is an important part of their kindergarten readiness.
Kindergarten: Please read with your child daily. As their reading skills develop, they can read to you, or you can alternate who reads. Kinders may also have brief math practice or an occasional take-home project that may need minimal parent assistance in gathering materials or setting a time/place to work.
First through Fifth Grades: Your student should be reading every night according to the minimums set by their teacher. There should be brief math practice as well. Occasional take-home projects may be assigned that only need minimal parent assistance in gathering materials and setting a time/place to work. Younger students may need you to read through the directions with them. Older students may have literature or thematic studies to complete at home. Classwork not finished at school may be sent home to be completed for submission.
Middle School: As we prepare for high school, homework throughout middle school will increase to build stamina towards high school. Sixth graders will begin the year with homework similar to fifth grade and increase throughout the year to include more reading and writing, especially in science and social studies. Classwork not finished at school may be sent home to be completed for submission.
