Our mission is to educate the whole child by providing a rich academic and arts curriculum, grounded in Orthodox Christian values, while fostering love of learning, personal responsibility and respect for each person. Check out these exciting opportunities to help shape the future with a job at Agia Sophia Academy! Tuition only covers about 60% of our annual budget needs. There are so many ways to contribute to ASA - you can donate your time, talents and treasures!
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Our Vision is to develop and sustain a Pan-Orthodox, Preschool through 8th Grade, faith-based, private educational ministry in the Portland area, so that our rich educational inheritance is transmitted to our children for the glory of God and the benefit of their/our souls.
Agia Sophia Academy educates the whole child by providing a rich academic and arts curriculum, grounded in Orthodox Christian values, while fostering love of learning, personal responsibility and respect for each person.To further form character in our students so they will become productive and good members of our communities.
Agia Sophia Academy educates the whole child by providing a rich academic and arts curriculum, grounded in Orthodox Christian values, while fostering love of learning, personal responsibility and respect for each person.To further form character in our students so they will become productive and good members of our communities.
We are affiliated with the Orthodox Christian Church. In 2004, the various Orthodox parishes in Portland came together to found the school. Orthodox Christian principles guide our educational philosophy and environment. Our school is also hosted at an Orthodox Christian parish, St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church.
Mrs. Christina (Bournelis) Blankenstein is a native Oregonian who grew up in the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church community. Mrs. Blankenstein attended Catholic elementary and high school in the Portland Metro area. After high school, she earned a BA degree in Politics and minor in History from Whitman College.
A Texas native, Christine Otto earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from University of Arizona and a Masters degree from UTexas before deciding that her heart really belonged in education. Since then, for the last twenty years, Christine has served as a classroom teacher, building administrator, and is now, a district level administrator for a local Portland district.
What better way to share our ASA Family than to include some testimonials for others to learn more about our wonderful school. Agia Sophia Academy provides a place for children to learn, to grow and be nourished in an environment that puts the child at front center. Whether we are guiding the individual child toward a new skill or giving him a strategy, we do so with utmost respect and appreciation for their unique personhood.
