About Us

Our Mission
Christ Child Academy is a faith community that celebrates Christ’s love. Our students are God’s children. Each is infinitely valuable and infinitely lovable. With Christ as our model, we teach and guide students to develop their potential in a loving, caring atmosphere.

As an extension of the Sheboygan Catholic faith communities of St. Peter Claver, Immaculate Conception and Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Christ Child Academy provides an approved core curriculum that fosters spiritual, intellectual, physical, and social growth.

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CCA School Philosophy
At Christ Child Academy, we believe:
• We are created, loved, and saved by God. We also celebrate this weekly and on weekends with others around the table of the Lord in the Eucharist Assembly.
• Catholic education is a loving, growing, living, and changing experience.
• Students have the right to learn about themselves and the world around them in a Catholic atmosphere.
• The Catholic community fosters an attitude of learning, sharing, and service woven into our everyday lives.
• Professional educators, guided by the Master Teacher, serve as role models of faith and personal growth.
• Every person has the right and opportunity to become a caring, loving, and knowledgeable human being.

CCA Goals
Based on tradition and scripture, it is the goal of Christ Child Academy to develop the four-fold Catholic school dimension.
MESSAGE: Values in education and faith which are practiced in daily life.
PRAYER/WORSHIP: Moral and spiritual values based on the foundations of Catholicism.
COMMUNITY: An appreciation for all of God’s creatures.
SERVICE: Christ-like attributes and actions in
service and love.

Meet our spiritual leaders.

Father Glenn Powers and Deacon Mike Burch

Father Glenn Powers has been pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish since 1995 and pastor of Ss. Cyril and Methodius since 2001. He appreciates all the sacrifices that the parishes and parents, along with teachers and administrative staff, have made to make Christ Child Academy a thriving ministry. Father Glenn has worked tirelessly to promote the school, a collaborative venture of all the south-side parishes. Father Glenn is very involved in CCA whether by attending a variety of meetings behind the scenes, preaching and presiding at School Liturgies, or by selling raffle tickets for the cakes that he bakes for the annual Winter Extravaganza Fund-raiser. This special priest is very proud of our tri-parish school and says that CCA is a school that parents and students alike “Can Have Faith In"!

Deacon Mike Burch has been the Parish Administrator at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church since 2002. Since 1984 Deacon Mike has ministered in the Church in youth ministry, adult education, religion teacher in a Catholic high school, pastoral associate, and as director of planned giving and executive director of the Catholic Foundation for the Rockford Diocese. Deacon Mike received his BA in Religious Studies with certification in Youth Ministry from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee and a MA in Christian Community Leadership from Regis University in Denver. He was ordained in 1994 for the Rockford Diocese and was Incardinated, officially attached to, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in 2003.
From 1988-1991 Deacon Mike served as Director of Youth Ministry for the collaborative ministry of St. Peter Claver and Immaculate Conception. Upon hearing of the opening for a Pastoral Associate at Ss Cyril & Methodius, Deacon Mike applied and was hired in 2000. During that time he also ministered at Immaculate Conception. On July 7, 2002 Deacon Mike was installed as Parish Director at St. Peter Claver.
Deacon Mike is married to Kathy who is a third grade teacher at St. John the Baptist School in Plymouth. They have one son, Ryan, who attends UW-Platteville majoring in Engineering Physics with a minor in Music.

Deacon Mike Burch

A rich heritage. An exciting future. The history of CCA.

A Catholic school is a precious legacy of a community handed down from generation to generation. Christ Child Academy is no exception.

While 1888 was the year St. Peter Claver Catholic School welcomed its first students, 1956 saw the construction of a new school building on the parish grounds. To the children and faculty’s delight, the new facility featured a tunnel under the playground connecting the church and school!

In 1919, the Parishioners of Ss. Cyril and Methodius opened the doors to their brand new school overlooking the Sheboygan River.

Similarly, in 1962 the recently relocated parish of Immaculate Conception began construction of its facility. In 1973 the gymnasium for the campus was completed.

Following numerous efforts at citywide consolidation of Sheboygan’s Catholic Schools, the leadership of St. Peter Claver and Immaculate Conception merged their schools are the beginning of the 1986-1987 School year.

In 1999, Ss. Cyril and Methodius Parish became a full member of the Christ Child Academy community.

In 2005 the elementary Campus with classes from 3 year old Kindergarten through 5th Grade were consolidated with the middle school at the Immaculate Conception Campus now hosting pre K - 8th grade.

Our deepest appreciation goes to the parishioners of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, St. Peter Claver and Immaculate Conception Parishes for their generous support of our ministry. We are committed to being a continued source of pride for their parishes.