As one of the very few independent Christian, Preschool through 8th Grade Schools in the Seattle area, Eastside Christian provides our families with a truly special environment. There is ample evidence, backed by thorough study as well as our own lived experience, that indicates a PS-8 school program supports better learning, social relationships, confidence, and happiness.

PS-8 Schools celebrate and strengthen childhood
You love your child. You want to protect them, but not shelter them. You want them to build resilience through adversity, but not crush their confidence. You want them to grow and develop, but at the right pace and the right time. PS-8 schools are built to walk the journey of childhood with parents. Instead of leaving childhood behind at a vulnerable age and navigating the complex world of secondary education, our students continue to discover God’s plan for them in the loving, stable, and exciting community that they’ve known since they were young.

PS-8 Schools cultivate leadership in students
You know your child’s gifts and you want to see them use those gifts as a leader. As our students step into Middle School, they naturally become leaders of our younger students by their words and actions. Our ACTS spiritual formation program specifically places middle school students in a leadership role with elementary students. Instead being influenced by a campus of middle school peers or even of high school students, Eastside Christian middle school students are actively providing leadership and spiritual mentoring to their younger peers every day.

PS-8 Schools enjoy freedom and independence to live their mission
We know: high school life comes with lots of excitement. But it also takes all kinds of attention away from what the rest of the school may need. It takes time and money to support of those high-profile athletics, performance spaces, college application processes, and Advanced Placement classes. It also brings other organizational relationships, outside groups who have an influence on the how the school operates. As a PS-8 school, we are focused on our young students, with complete independence, agility, and freedom to invest our time and attention in them.

PS-8 Schools prepare students to step into high school at the right time
There is a reason that middle school holds the place that it does in pop culture – part comedy, part tragedy – and why so many people recall their middle school years with terror. Children are at a vulnerable stage developmentally – with tremendous physical, cognitive, and emotional changes occurring – and it is at precisely at this time that they need stability, familiarity, and confidence. They also need challenge and change, and our middle school program provides that and so much more. But above all, this an age where they need just a few more years in the community they love before graduating as Eagles, ready to soar into high school as young adults.