Restoration Academy has a student to teacher ratio of 17:1 and an active volunteer program (over 100 volunteers come each week to tutor students).
Second grade teacher Jenny Wasson and students displaying their work
Restoration Academy was founded in 1988 by Dr. Anthony Gordon in response to divisive forces such as crime and violence that had ensnared many of the young people in the community. Dr. Gordon followed his calling to provide a quality, private education to predominantly lower-income families. He believed that such an education should be available to more than affluent families. Twenty three years later, the school has stayed committed to Dr. Gordon’s vision by making a quality and Christ-centered education available to children in grades K4 – 12.
Today the school is committed to do its best to meet individual students at their point of need, provide dynamic instruction and curriculum, competitive sports and outlets for kids to grow into all the potential God desires. The most celebrated outcome is seeing the students overcome the potentially destructive lifestyles of fatherlessness, functional illiteracy and incarceration.
Restoration Academy has a student to teacher ratio of 17:1 and an active volunteer program (over 100 volunteers come each week to tutor students). On the Stanford Achievement Test our students in grades 7 to 12, on average, are advancing two years in one year’s time in reading comprehension and math. For the previous five school years, 100 % of Restoration Academy graduates were accepted into college.
Restoration Academy staff members Tonya Jones and Molly Stone with two RFA students on a mission trip to Zimbabwe
Most importantly, Restoration Academy is breaking the generational cycles of poverty, violence, addiction and fatherlessness in the greater Birmingham area.
