ACADEMIC OUTCOMES AT ACA

ACA equips students to know, love, and practice what is true, good, and beautiful both in their formal education and throughout their lives. The result is both thankfulness and excellence.

Outcomes of a Classical Christian Education

A quality classical Christian education has been shown to produce excellent results across a variety of holistic outcomes. These results are demonstrated in the Good Soil Report, a comparative study by the University of Notre Dame looking at alumni from public, secular private, Catholic, evangelical Christian, religious homeschool, and classical Christian schools. When compared to students at these other types of schools, classical Christian students consistently excelled in college and career readiness, life outlook, Christian commitment, traditional and conservative values, independence, and influence.

Standardized Testing

ACA's students perform above national norms of standardized test-takers in both math and reading.

SAT: ACA’s 2027 graduates took the SAT in the spring of 2026 and received a composite SAT score of 1360, an impressive jump above the federal and Colorado state averages.

• ACA Composite SAT score: 1360

• National Composite SAT score: 1045

• Colorado Composite SAT score: 994

College Acceptances

Our vision is that 80–90% of ACA graduates will attend four-year colleges and universities, equipped to pursue their chosen vocations and to influence the world for Christ. One meaningful indicator of college readiness is standardized testing performance. Our Upper School students score among the top 19% nationwide on the Classic Learning Test and among the top 14% nationwide on the PSAT. These results position our students well for admission to highly regarded colleges and universities.

ACA's graduates have been accepted to the following colleges and universities: Baylor University, Biola University, Calvin University, Colorado Christian University, Colorado State University, Covenant College, Clark College, Grove City College, Hope College, Metro State University Denver, New Saint Andrews College, Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Idaho, Virginia Tech, Wheaton College, and Washington State University.

AP and Dual Credit Course Opportunities

ACA offers the following AP courses: AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, and AP Precalculus. 100% of ACA students who have sat for an AP test have passed the course to date.

ACA has also partnered with Colorado Christian University (CCU) to offer dual credit and dual enrollment for French 1, French 2, College Algebra, and Biology. CCU is a four-year liberal arts university accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), which is one of the six regional accrediting agencies recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

CLT 3-8: On the 2025 CLT 3rd-8th grade test, ACA students scored, on average, in the 72nd percentile—a remarkable 22 points above the national norm and in the top 28% of all CLT test takers.