Smithtown Christian School

Smithtown Christian School
Address
1 Higbie Drive Smithtown, New York United States
Information
Type	Private
Motto	A heart for God, a mind for Truth, and a passion to change the World.
Religious affiliation(s)	Christian
Established	1978
Superintendent	Roger Erdvig
Faculty	46.8 (FTE)
Enrollment	477 (2013-2014)
Student to teacher ratio	10.2
Campus	Suburban, 15 acres (61,000 m2)
Color(s)	Red, White, Blue
Athletics	5 sports for girls 5 sports for boys
Athletics conference	NY State Public High School Athletic Association
Website	www.learnwithscs.org

Smithtown Christian School is a private Christian school in Smithtown, New York.

A ministry of Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle, the school is accredited by Association of Christian Schools International and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. SCS functions as a day care, a preschool, a kindergarten, an elementary school, and a secondary school. It started as an elementary school in 1978 with only 59 students. The first senior class graduated in 1991.

Campus

Smithtown Christian School is a co-educational Christian school serving families on Long Island. In cooperation with the Smithtown Christian School Early Learning Center, and Happy Time Pre-School, it is a school that serves families with pre-school aged children aged 2 years 9 months through twelfth grade. It begin in 1978, when Smithtown Gospel Tabernacle bought the 15-acre (61,000 m²) Sweet Briar Public School campus, an excessed school property on Higbie Drive in Smithtown, NY from the Smithtown Central School District in order to start a Christian elementary school. The school enrollment was 59 that first year, but grew steadily over the next few years. By 1985, there were over 300. Total enrollment combined in the Early Learning Center (Daycare), Happy Time Pre-School, and Smithtown Christian School has held steady at more than 600 in recent years.

The original Sweet Briar campus was a series of smaller buildings joined by outdoor concrete sidewalks. In 1979 the church began a major construction project that would connect the smaller buildings and add a church sanctuary in the large space between the buildings. Construction was completed in the fall of 1983, when the church operations relocated from the buildings on New York Avenue in Smithtown to the Higbie Drive property.

Another major building project was completed in 1994, to upgrade the gym and cafeteria facilities and provide a church fellowship hall. Again in 2007, the church began another multi-million dollar addition which added science labs and rehearsal rooms for the band, choir, and orchestra. This construction project was completed in the fall of 2009.