Admissions

Your first step to becoming an HCA Lion!

The Admissions Process

Schedule a call to speak with one of our admissions representatives about becoming an HCA Lion!

Submit your application online. There is a $75 non-refundable application fee.

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Academic Entrance Screening Test

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Family Interview

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Submit an Application

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Speak to an
Admissions Representative

Families will meet with the Principal or Superintendent and Director of Admissions to review your application, school policy and procedures (including academic and spiritual standards), entrance screening results, and any supporting documentation such as IEPs.

An admissions representative will contact you after you submit your application to schedule an entrance test for students in grades K4 - 8. Students in grades 6+ must submit the completed English & Math Teacher Recommendation form.

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Final Enrollment Packet

Complete the final enrollment packet and provide required documentation:

 Cost of Attendance

There is no better time to invest in your child's education than during his or her most formative years in elementary, middle and high school - the years when faith, values and friendships are formed. At Hernando Christian Academy, teachers are committed to each child by helping to build a strong academic and spiritual foundation.

Family Assistance

Financial aid & scholarships available to qualified families.

Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options

This branch of the scholarship eligibility is based on family income and provides the option for K-12 students to attend a participating private school. Families apply through one of the approved scholarship funding organizations (SFO), which are responsible for determining and distributing funding to private schools.

Florida Tax Credit

To expand educational opportunities for children of families that have limited financial resources and to enable children in this state to achieve a greater level of excellence in their education, the Florida Legislature created the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program in 2001. A student is eligible for a scholarship from a nonprofit scholarship funding organization through this program if the student is on the direct certification list, or the student’s household income level does not exceed 400 percent of the federal poverty level; or if the student is currently placed, or during the previous state fiscal year was placed, in foster care. Scholarship amounts may be obtained by contacting a scholarship funding organization directly.

Family Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities

This branch of the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program is designed to offer families of students with disabilities, as young as 3 years of age, access to additional education options. Families may choose to enroll their student in another public school, or they may take the opportunity to receive a personal education savings account (ESA) for their student. With an ESA, parents receive a deposit of public funds into government-authorized savings accounts with restricted, but multiple, uses. An ESA can be used to fund not only items such as private school tuition and fees, but also online learning programs, private tutoring, community college costs, higher education expenses and other approved customized learning services and materials. Families apply and annually renew for participation in FES UA through one of the approved SFOs, which are responsible for determining eligibility, awarding and distributing funding to eligible student accounts, and approving eligible expenditures.

Financial Aid

Financial Aid is offered through Hernando Christian Academy. Click the button to apply.

 Commonly Asked Questions

  • We believe that a school's ultimate purpose should be to equip children to understand the truth about life, the world, and their place in it.

    We also believe that in order to understand these truths, the deeper questions regarding the meaning and purpose of life cannot be ignored. The curriculum of public education cannot guide students through these deeper questions of life, and it cannot use the Word of God as it's standard of truth. Christian Schools, on the other hand, seek to equip students to recognize the Lordship of Christ in all subject areas of learning and to respond in obedience to His call to be transforming influences in society.

    Secondly, not only does a school shape a child's mind, but one also cannot ignore the impact that a school has on the heart of a child. All schools have a vision for the kind of person they want their students to become. In other words, schools do not only teach information they also seek to educate the emotions and influence the living actions of a child's life. The power a school has to impress a worldview on a youngster is great.

    The goal of Christian education is to guide children towards an understanding that God is at the center of every pursuit of knowledge. Not only that, Christian schools also strive to challenge students towards allowing God to mold their hearts in submission to Him, and in doing that, they equip them to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in the world. There is no greater purpose for a school than to guide students towards embracing the world in this way.

  • Hernando Christian Academy participates in the following financial aid scholarship programs. Step Up for Students, Florida Empowerment Scholarship, AAA Scholarship, Gardiner Scholarship, McKay Scholarship and HCA Financial Aid.

  • No. You do not need to be a member of a church.

  • No. We do not have pick-up or drop-off transportation.

  • For grades pre-school through 8th grade, your student will be tested to determine proper placement in our classes.

    The test will cover material that the child has already studied and will be scored according to the national norms for the child's current level of schooling.

  • The cost of books is included in the Elementary tuition.

    For Middle and High School students, the cost of books is the family’s responsibility to purchase.

  • Yes, HCA requires students to wear uniform shirts with the school logo. For more information, please review our uniform information guidelines.

  • There is 1:20 student/teacher ratio. Most of our elementary classes have a teacher aid in the classroom.

  • HCA offers Student Government, Yearbook, Fishing, Stem, Art, Chess/Game, National Honor Society, Puppet Team, and Worship Team.

  • HCA is a member of the Florida High School Athletic Association and fields teams in boys’ football, basketball and baseball; and girls’ volleyball, basketball, cheerleading and softball as well as co-ed cross country, soccer and tennis.

  • HCA offers an academic program beginning at PreK 4 through 12th grade.

  • Yes.

    MAP Growth

    Students in grades K-9 take the MAP Growth assessment three times during the school year. The purpose of MAP Growth is to determine what the student knows and is ready to learn next. MAP Growth is designed to measure student achievement and growth over time.

    PSAT

    Students in grades 10 & 11 take the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, part of College Board’s Suite of Assessments). The test prepares students for the SAT. It assesses skills in reading, writing, and math. The test is administered in October and the fee for the test is $16.

    SAT

    The SAT is administered on campus approximately three times per year for students in grades 10 & 11. The fee for the SAT School Day is $60.