Enriching Educational Experiences

At VCES, faculty and staff foster a caring learning environment that is patient, encouraging, and tailored to the unique needs of each and every student. 

Teachers challenge students at their individual levels through differentiated instruction, project-based activities, and the most up-to-date and effective digital learning tools. The core academic program includes Bible, reading, language, writing, math, science, and social studies, and is designed to meet and exceed California state standards in the various academic disciplines. An extensive offering of enrichment classes and after-school programs, created to identify and nurture each student’s God-given potential, enhances the general curriculum

VCES Distinctives

• Daily Bible lessons and weekly chapel
• Star Reaching - Students score well above the national average for reading comprehension.
• Caring, well-trained teachers
• Teachers receive continual training in best practice, 21st-century teaching skills
• Teachers receive comprehensive training in Differentiated Instruction
• Language Arts are taught through the multi-sensory Slingerland approach
• Cursive is taught beginning in Kindergarten using the Slingerland methodology. This approach allows students to become proficient writers as they move through the elementary years.
• Extensive after-school programs in academics, arts, and athletics
• On-site support services available
• National Blue Ribbon Award Winner (2016)
• International Space Station experiment (fifth-grade) 
• Agri-tech/hydroponics lab (fourth-grade)

iPad Program

We are committed to utilizing the most effective digital learning tools. In kindergarten through third grade, students use iPads as interactive instructional devices, while all fourth and fifth graders use Chromebooks.

Challenge Success 

Through our partnership with Challenge Success, a national educational organization, VCS works to create more balanced workloads, raise student engagement, and actively support the students in their pursuit of the biblical definition of success. Part of the initiative has included revisiting the homework policy to eliminate busy work, allowing for much-needed downtime in the evening, with the goal of supporting students’ academic and emotional well-being while preserving meaningful family time.