Who We Are

El Shaddai Academy is a private Christian school specializing in home education.

El Shaddai Academy
716 North Ventura Road #333
Oxnard, CA 93030
(805) 483-3838

Pam Sanchez, Administrator
Alex Sanchez, Principal

The History of Our School

El Shaddai Academy (ESA) has been operating since 1990 as a Private School, registered with the California State Department of Education. In June of 2002, the first student graduated with a diploma from El Shaddai Academy and is attending Chapman University in Orange, California. The administrator holds a current Professional Clear Multiple Subject Teaching Credential issued by the State of California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. ESA is listed in the California Private School Directory and is a Support Network Member of Christian Home Educators Association of California.

Our Philosophy

We believe the Lord has charged parents with the responsibility of instructing their children.

Deuteronomy 6:5-9 (NIV)
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Ephesians 6:4b (NIV)
Fathers …bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Our Purpose

ESA was established to help families who have chosen to heed God's Word in the form of home education. Our record keeping/mentoring service was specifically designed for families that:

• Do not need direct oversight (but would appreciate encouragement through mentoring) to meet the educational goals they have established for the training and instruction of their children.
• Are looking for an accountability system that will keep them "on track" with their record keeping.
• Desire the umbrella covering of an established private Christian school.
• Desire help ensuring all legal requirements are being met.
• Agree with ESA’s Statement of Faith.

Statement of Faith

• We believe that both the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, revealing the three Persons of the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the incarnation and virgin birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ who became man without ceasing to be God.
• We believe that man was created in the image of God, but is separated from God by sin.
• We believe that man is redeemed by grace through faith in Christ's substitutionary atonement for sins, by the shedding of His blood on the cross.
• We believe that the gift of eternal life is available to all men, that those who are regenerated by the Holy Spirit receive Christ by faith and thereby become children of God.
• We believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, His imminent return, and the resurrection of His people to life everlasting.