overview of The Cambridge school of Dallas

Mission and History

The Cambridge School of Dallas (grades 5-12) is a Christ-centered, college preparatory, classical school. Its educational philosophy is committed to "Academic Discipleship: Fostering a Love of Learning with a Passion for Jesus Christ." Cambridge grew out of Logos Academy which opened in 1996, matriculating its first senior class in 2002. Cambridge is a nondenominational, coeducational institution and currently enrolls 112 students.

Curriculum

Cambridge takes average to above average students based on ISEE performance, places them in an above average curriculum and seeks to maximize the potential of every student. The curriculum is normed to the standards of the College Board's Advance Placement program in its core subject areas. All students take AP courses, which are taught from the perspective of a Christian worldview. All seniors take rhetoric and complete a senior tutorial, a course which requires them to present and defend a 15-page thesis before a faculty panel. The program is summarized by the following core principles:

• Maximizing the potential of average to above average students
• Norming curriculum to objective standards of mastery
• Stressing fundamental beliefs through study of the Bible and the great tradition of historic Christianity
• Teaching curriculum from a Christian worldview
• Emphasizing persuasive speaking and writing
• Designing curriculum to assist students in admission to select and highly select colleges and universities
• Offering athletic, artistic, and extracurricular pursuits that develop natural abilities and talents as well as character and leadership skills

College Board Advanced Placement Courses

Cambridge offers 16 AP courses, some of which are offered based on student interest and enrollment. The AP course offerings include English (Language/Composition, Literature/Composition); Foreign Language (French, Latin Vergil, Latin Literature, Spanish); Mathematics (AB Calculus, BC Calculus); Science (Biology, Physics); History (European, United States, Government); and Fine Arts (Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design, Three-Dimensional Design).

Standardized Tests

Over the past four years, Cambridge has maintained a 73% pass rate on AP exams in eighteen different subjects. In 2002-2003, with 40 exams taken, the average score was 3.8. In 2003-2004, with 88 tests taken, the average score was 3.3; there were five AP Scholars, one AP Scholar with Honor, and five AP Scholars with Distinction. In 2004-2005, with 90 exams taken, the average score was 3.1; there were seven AP scholars, two AP Scholars with Honor, and three AP Scholars with Distinction. In 2005-2006, with 82 exams taken, the average score was 3.2; there were nine AP Scholars, five AP Scholars with Honor, and four AP Scholars with Distinction.

National Merit Commended and Finalists
Class of 2003	6 Commended	2 Finalists
Class of 2004	1 Commended	2 Finalists
Class of 2005	2 Commended	0 Finalists
Class of 2006	7 Commended	1 Finalists
Class of 2007	3 Commended	1 Finalists

 

SAT Profile:	Verbal	Math	Writing	Average
Class of 2003	703	648		1351
Class of 2004	639	611		1250
Class of 2005	701	671		1372
Class of 2006	642	656	642	1930
Class of 2007	672	629	660	1961

See Upper School Profile for College Acceptances and Matriculations for Classes of 2003-2007. One hundred percent of Cambridge graduates attend college.

Extra Curricular Activities:

In addition to its academic curriculum, the School offers cross-country, soccer, crew and volleyball (fall); basketball (winter); and crew, tennis, golf and track (spring). The School is a member of TAPPS 3A. The drama department presents a play in the fall and spring, and the Fine Arts Department produces numerous state and local awards for students of all ages. A group of Cambridge HS students, mostly sophomores and juniors, go on a college trip in the fall as part of the college counseling available through the Director of College Placement.

Faculty

Cambridge seeks master teachers. The faculty has extensive experience in teaching the Advanced Placement courses offered in the curriculum. Of the full-time faculty members, two have doctorates, one is ABD, and seven have master's degrees in their areas of teaching. Student to faculty ratio is 6:1.

The Cambridge School of Dallas aims at graduating students characterized by excellence in both academics and character and preparing them to advance Christ's Kingdom by aggressively engaging our culture.

Statement of Faith:

The government of the School, under leadership of the Holy Spirit, is vested in a Board of Trustees and carried out by the administration and faculty. Cambridge's By-Laws provide for a Doctrinal Statement that all Board of Trustees and the Head of School annually affirm, as follows:

• We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of both the Old and New Testament in the original documents, both of which are infallible and inerrant and that they are our final and absolute authority in every area of life and knowledge.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.
• We believe that God the Holy Spirit is a personal being who convicts the world of sin, regenerates, indwells, empowers, guides, bestows spiritual gifts on believers, and seals them eternally for God. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary.
• We believe that man was created by a direct act of God in His image, not from previously existing life, that all men sinned in Adam (the historical father of the entire human race) and thus incurred both physical and spiritual death and inherited a sinful nature.
• We believe that salvation is by grace alone through faith in Christ alone.
• We believe that faith without works is dead.
• We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus and that all are under the mandate to make disciples of all nations.

Other information:

Cambridge is a fully Accredited School under the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and is a member of the prestigious College Board and other Associations.