User:Bmorrelltx/Spring Creek Acaemy

Spring Creek Academy is a private school for gifted and talented students, with an alternative education model of smaller class sizes and flexible class schedules. This allows students to achieve their full academic potential, while pursuing competitive extracurricular activities in athletics or the arts. The Spring Creek education model was pioneered by Karen Morrell in 1991 when she founded Tutorial Service of Plano.

Spring Creek Academy uses a blend of traditional education of structured small classes of highly motivated students that enable a faster pace of education and a tutorial style of teaching. The tutorial style comes from the low student to teacher ratio that builds a closer bond between the teacher and the student.

The student body is primarily made up of students who seek to enhance their skills in athletics or the performing arts and are naturally motivated. This combination of motivated students and tutorial style education allows the education process to be provided in a concise format of short classes of 30 minutes on each topic. These short classes allow the school day to be shortened to half day session so that he students are free to pursue excellence in their given talents.

Spring Creek Academy is private school located in Plano Texas, offering High School 9-12th grade, Middle School 6-8th grade, and Elementary grades K-5. The school has consistently ranked in the top 2% of nationally ranked schools based on Iowa Test of Basic Skils (ITBS)test results. ITBS is the gold standard for testing student comprehension for grades K-12.

Spring Creek Academy has a notable list of Alumni Nastia Liukin, Carly Patterson, Hunter Parish, Molly C. Quinn, Courtney Hope, Shannon Lee, James Buescher, as well as several nationally recognized scholars.