The Asian Christian High School

One of ACA’s most successful programs to date, the Asian Christian High

School was started in 1996 to reach children in the villages surrounding Bangalore with the good news, while offering city-level facilities and academic standards on par with the best schools in India. The school is accredited and affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.
When it was founded, ACHS began with 225 children in kindergarten through second grade. The school had grown exponentially by 2001 to reach 700 students in grades K-9.

Since 2001, the school has nearly doubled in size, with 1260 students in grades K-10, a staff of 45 teachers and 20 non-teaching support personnel. In 2010, the school will further expand to offer education in grades 11 and 12.

Bible scriptures are taught beginning in the fifth grade, and students are encouraged to excel in this subject with scholarships offered for high grades in Scripture classes. All students in grades 5 and up also receive a free bible. In addition to students who are bussed in from the villages surrounding ACA, the school also teaches the children residing in the House of Joy residents.

The school’s motto is “Light through Letters” and ACHS has been successful in its mission and vision; students graduate to institutes of higher learning, where they earn degrees in engineering, math, science, medicine and other important fields. Sixty percent of all ACHS graduates go on to earn engineering degrees. All students graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary to lift themselves and their families up from the poverty so prevalent in rural India.

Even more importantly, most graduates embrace the gospel of Christ and bring the Word back to their families. ACHS has been ACA’s most successful program, making a profound impact on students and indirectly impactingtheir parents, siblings and neighbors, too.

You can learn even more about ACHS by reading the story of Jeeva, the first ACHS graduate to fully embrace Christ through baptism. Click here to learn more about Jeeva.