Ridgway Christian School
Christian school in Arkansas, United States
Ridgway Christian School (RCS) was a private K–12 Christian school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Pine Bluff First Assembly of God is the school's parent church. The 30-acre (12 ha) middle and high school campus was owned by the Pine Bluff Educational Endowment (PBEE); This campus was known as Ridgway Christian High School (RCHS).
History
In August 1997 the school opened with five employees and 17 students. The First Assembly of God Church had created the school.
From 2007 to 2008 the net increase of students was around 20. In that same period 15 of them stopped attending the school since they moved outside of the Pine Bluff area, which reflected the economic issues in the Arkansas Delta region.
Ridgway Christian began leasing the current secondary school building in June 2013. St. Joseph Catholic School previously leased the building before its 2013 closure.
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