Sioux Falls Christian Schools is a private school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The school was founded in 1958 as an elementary school named Calvin Christian. Since its inception, SFC has expanded and currently offers programs from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade and is accredited by the state of South Dakota and Christian Schools International. The superintendent is Jay Woudstra. The elementary and middle/high school principals are Kym Johnston, Jake Pettengill, and Jeremy Van Nieuwenhuyzen, respectively. The high school enrollment is around 300 with about 88 percent Caucasian, 11 percent Asian, and less than 1 percent African American.
Academics
Sioux Falls Christian is strong academically as the students have scored well above the state and national averages on ACT scores. SFC currently offers AP courses in physics, English, calculus, US History, Government, Statistics, Biology and Spanish. Students can also participate in music, drama, cheerleading, dance and oral interp. Over 60% of the teachers have a master's degree in education.
Facilities
In 2004, the Sioux Falls Christian Middle and High Schools moved from the old building on Sycamore Avenue to the new $10.2 million, building on the Charger Campus near 69th Street and Cliff Avenue. In 2007, the elementary school moved from its Sneve Campus onto the same campus after a $7.5 million expansion. Sioux Falls Christian shares their outdoor athletic facilities with the University of Sioux Falls at the $14 million Sanford HealthSports Complex. The sports complex is adjacent to the high school campus and has state-of-the-art synthetic turf football and soccer fields as well as track and field facilities. Sioux Falls Christian has added additional elementary and state-of-the-art high school classrooms in 2014 and 2019. The high school classrooms include technology, furniture, and collaborative learning spaces. A STEM lab was added in 2020 to serve all grade levels. Despite these facilities, Sioux Falls Christian insists "We're not about building buildings. We're about building the Kingdom of God... one student at a time."
Athletics
SFC offers the following Men's sports: Soccer, football, cross country, basketball, golf, and track. SFC offers the following Women's sports: soccer, volleyball, cross country, basketball, golf, track, and cheer leading. The athletic teams are called the Chargers.The athletic teams have a number of state championships. The first championship came in 1981 when the boys team won the Class B state cross country meet. The girls track team was Class B runner-up and champion in 1984, 1985, 2013, and 2014, respectively. The boys Cross Country team also won state again in 2016, and took 3rd in 2014 and Runner-Up in 2015, with runner Caleb DeWeerd taking District Champion and placing 6th at State. The girls placed 10th at State in 2015. The girls' volleyball team won the Class A state championship in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019 under head coach Darci Wassenaar. They were runner-up in Class B in 1992 and '95 and runner-up in Class A in 2002 and 2003. The boys' track team won the Class A state title in 2008 under coach Brock Rops and again in 2017 under coach Bob Garry. The girls' golf team won their first state championship in 2011 and went runner up in 2013, 2014, and 2018 under coach Don Garnaas. The boys' golf team won the 2005 through 2007 Class B titles and the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Class A titles under Mike Schouten. The boy's golf team won its first class A state championship in 2019 under coach Marv Addink. Mike Schouten also led the boys basketball team to their first state championship in 2016. The boys' soccer team won state titles in 2005, 2007, and 2008 under Kim Wieking and in 2015 under Kendall Velgersdyk, and placed second in 2000, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2019. They placed third in 2010. The football team won the 11B state championship in 2017 and 2018 under coach Jake Pettengill.
