About Us
Sussex Christian School is dedicated to prepare young people to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, with the ability to understand, evaluate, and transform their world from the foundation of God’s unchanging Word.
Our History
Sussex Christian School was founded in 1958 by members of the Sussex Christian Reformed Church. With much fervent prayer and enthusiastic labor, the School was established to provide a loving, caring environment for learning based on God’s infallible Word, the Bible, and continuing the instruction of Christian values taught in homes and churches.
SCS personifies Proverbs 1:7, “The beginning of knowledge is the fear of the Lord.” It is upon this foundation that all instruction has, and will always, be based. Our purpose is to educate young people for a life of obedience to God’s Word, prepare them to be ambassadors for Jesus Christ, and train them to be good citizens in Christ’s Kingdom in this ever-changing and increasingly perilous world. As Christians, we believe that God is part of all aspects of life, consequently, Biblical principles are woven throughout all aspects of the curriculum. This distinct perspective is a chief differentiator of SCS graduates.
SCS continues to provide a Christian education with strong academic programs for elementary and middle school children. Our families reside in northern New Jersey as well as neighboring areas of New York and Pennsylvania. SCS is a non-profit, inter-denominational Christian school. Although its roots are in the Christian Reformed tradition, students come from many churches throughout the area.
What We Believe
The Bible
We believe that God reveals Himself by His Holy Word and through it, renews man’s understanding of God, mankind and the world. The Scriptures guide man in all his relationships and activities and therefore also applies in the education of His children.
Creation
We believe that children must come to learn that the world and man’s calling in it can rightly be understood only in their relationship to the Triune God who by His creation, restoration and governance directs all things until the coming of His kingdom and the glorification of His name.
Sin
We believe that man’s sin causes all sorts of distortions in reality because it brought upon us the curse of God and thus alienates us from our Maker, our neighbor, and the world. Sin distorts our understanding of the true meaning and purpose of life and thus misdirects human culture, including education.
Jesus Christ
We believe that there is renewal of all areas of life through Jesus Christ because He is the Redeemer, the Light and the Way. Only through His Spirit are we guided in truth and recommitted to our original calling.
Our School
We believe that the purpose of Christian schools is to educate children for a life of obedience to their calling as image bearers of God. This calling is to know God’s Word and Creation, to consecrate the whole of life to God, love our neighbor, and be Christian stewards in our tasks.
Educational Freedom
We believe that Christian schools, organized and administered with legitimate standards and provisions for day schools, should be fully recognized in society to be free and to function according to the above principles.
Parents
We believe that the primary responsibility for education rests upon parents to whom God has entrusted the children and that Christian parents should accept this obligation in view of the covenantal relationship which God has established with believers and their children. They should seek to discharge this obligation to support the teachers in this task.
Teachers
We believe that Christian teachers, both in obedience to God and in cooperation with parents, have unique teaching responsibility in the education of the children in the school. The Christian community has an obligation to support the teachers in this task.
Pupils
We believe that Christian schools must take into account the variety of abilities, needs and skills of young people while recognizing their inadequacies as sinners. This requires that learning goals and curricula be selected that will best prepare them to live as obedient Christians and that only with constant attention to such instructional concerns will the education here be truly Christian.
Our community
Here at Sussex Christian School, we consider each parent, child, grandparent, alumni and supporter of our school part of our family. We come together to help the school, its families, and members of the community in fellowship, praise, and need.
165
Students (PreK-8)
20
Dedicated Christian Teacher
35
Churches Represented
900+
Alumni
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