National Honor Society 2023

The purpose of this organization is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, promote leadership, and stimulate a desire to serve and build and develop character in secondary school students.

 

Eligibility: Membership in the Grace Christian Academy Chapter of the National Honor Society is an honor. Selection for membership is based on outstanding demonstration of the Four Pillars of the National Honor Society: scholarship, character, leadership, and service. Once selected, members have the responsibility to continue to demonstrate these qualities. To be eligible for membership, candidates should have a genuine desire to serve the school and community and must have attended Grace Christian Academy for at least one full semester. Candidates for membership must also meet the following requirements:

 

Scholarship: Candidates for membership in the National Honor Society must have a minimum cumulative weighted GPA of at least 4.0. A list of rising junior and senior students who meet this academic requirement will be compiled at the end of the third quarter of each school year.

 

Character: Membership in the National Honor Society is a testament to the school as well as the outside community; therefore, students must consistently exhibit the fruit of the Spirit and be in good standing. During the selection process, the disciplinary records of the candidates are checked against membership criteria. Students who have had disciplinary issues will be evaluated on an individual basis by the Faculty Committee.

 

If a student has been suspended for any reason, he or she may not be inducted into the National Honor Society within one year of the suspension. Once the one-year waiting period has passed, the student will be eligible for consideration for membership at the time of the next induction. Candidates must not have been expelled from this or a previous school.

 

Leadership: To be eligible for membership, students must meet at least one of the following criteria:
• held or currently hold a leadership position at the High School level (Student Life Team, Student Leadership Team, Student Council, etc.)
• demonstrated leadership by attending a local, regional, or national conference dealing with contemporary student issues
• demonstrated leadership by initiating and leading a program that benefits GCA students, the local Christian community, or the international community of believers
• demonstrated leadership ability which can be verified by the student’s teachers

 

Service: Service forms the core of National Honor Society activities and supports our school and community. Volunteering allows you to gain empathy, awareness, leadership skills, collaboration with others, and motivation to make a difference in our community. It is the goal of the Grace Christian Academy Chapter of the National Honor Society that participating in these activities will instill values that encourage a lifetime of service.

 

Candidates must have evidence of previous service in both school and community. Service activities are those that are done for or on the behalf of others (not including family members) for which no direct financial or material compensation, reward, or educational credit is given. Students applying for membership as rising juniors must have completed a minimum of 20 service hours and rising seniors must have a minimum of 30 service hours. Students may count hours completed during the summer toward this service requirement to apply for membership.

 

Each student who is accepted as a member of the Grace Christian Academy Chapter of the National Honor Society must complete a minimum of 25 hours of service for each academic school year. Service projects must be completed between the first day of school in August and a predetermined date in May (to be announced at the first Chapter meeting each year.)

 

See the appendix for further requirements and application details for the National Honor Society. Contact Mrs. Haley Riggs at [email protected] with questions.