Please click on any question below to learn more about Peoples Baptist Academy:

Is your school affiliated with a local church?

Is your school accredited?

What curriculum do you use?

What is InfoDirect?

Are tuition payments made by bank auto-draft safe?

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Question:  Is your school affiliated with a local church?

Peoples Baptist Academy is a ministry of Peoples Baptist Church.  Everything that we do revolves around our church.  Our church dictates the school’s policies and determines its Bible-based curriculum.  We are an independent, fundamental, Baptist church school.  We instill and teach the Holy Scriptures, the King James Version of the Bible, to our students and adhere to and teach traditional Baptist doctrine. 

Although our doors are open to others, Peoples Baptist Academy was instituted for the members of Peoples Baptist Church; therefore, those participating must adhere to the school policies as set forth by the church.  It is our intention to be firm, not harsh.  Although we may appear to be rigid, we believe our policies to be right and fair.  Our teachers are saved, separated, active church members, and everything they teach is Christ honoring and Bible based.

In keeping with the Bible and with the Constitution and By-laws of Peoples Baptist Church, we acknowledge that the God-ordained authority for the church and its ministries, including the Christian school, is the pastor. Therefore, the pastor reserves the right to implement rules, policies, procedures, and changes as he determines to be necessary and in the best interest of the church and school, and he has full authority to designate administration and staff to administer the same.

We invite you to visit our church web site.  Click here.

Question:  Is your school accredited?

Accreditation by a state government agency is an administrative mechanism designed to ascertain uniform education for all children in secular schools.  It was established as a governmental means of causing local public school districts to provide what the state educational agencies determine as minimum academic and facility standards for all schools.  Accreditation teams, therefore, investigate and approve or disapprove facilities and curriculum in educational institutions according to the criteria developed by secular education administrators who may or may not be Christians.  State textbooks are often developed by secular writers who reject our Lord Jesus Christ and, in fact, extol concepts contrary to the teachings of the Bible.

It seems unreasonable to expect parents to withdraw their child from a government school with academic and moral ills and place him in a private institution with the same curriculum, methods, and objectives.  Accreditation of a private Christian school is not necessary for a graduate who wishes to enroll in a college or university.  Registrars of such institutions are interested in the academics of individual students, not in the names of their schools of graduation.  Thus, they evaluate each applicant’s standardized tests.

Peoples Baptist Academy is a member of the Georgia Association of Christian Schools (GACS).  Membership through the GACS also features national membership through the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS).  Peoples Baptist Academy is provisionally accredited through the GACS and AACS and enjoys full benefits and privileges of accreditation while awaiting full status.

Students and their parents can expect and receive high academic training in a God-honoring, Christian atmosphere.

Question:  What curriculum do you use?

A Beka curriculum (K3 - 12)

Question:  What is InfoDirect?

InfoDirect is a communication link that connects our school and our parents.  Families are assigned a unique username and password and can access InfoDirect 24 hours a day from any computer with an Internet connection.  Parents and students can keep up-to-date with grades, homework assignments, lunchroom menu, sports activities and the school calendar.  Parents can also access their school financial account. 

InfoDirect's Message Center provides direct communication with teachers, coaches, office personnel and the school administration.  Parents also receive progress reports, report cards, and monthly financial statements via InfoDirect.  There is no charge to the parents for this powerful tool.

There's a page that tells you more about InfoDirect and how to use it.  Click here.

Question:  Are tuition payments made by bank auto-draft safe?

Definitely.  Bank auto-drafts are securely processed twice monthly through our School Dynamics software and provide you ability to select a date to automatically pay your school bill each month without fear of forgetting or having to pay late fees.  This is the same type of secure service that you are probably already familiar with and benefit from by having your payroll checks directly deposited into your checking or savings account or for automatically paying your utility bills each month.  There is no charge to our parents for this convenience.

Since all charges are billed to school accounts on the first of each month, please remember to check your account balance shortly after that to see the exact amount that will be auto-drafted from your account on the day of the month you selected.  We are required to send our request for auto-drafts to our bank 1-2 days prior to the date you requested the funds drafted, so please notify us early if you need to change you auto-draft.

The Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network is a highly reliable and efficient nationwide batch-oriented electronic funds transfer system governed by the NACHA OPERATING RULES which provide for the interbank clearing of electronic payments for participating depository financial institutions. The Federal Reserve and Electronic Payments Network act as ACH Operators, central clearing facilities through which financial institutions transmit or receive ACH entries.