The Total Child Learning Center vs. Adhiambo School

The Total Child Learning Center in Jackson, MS, offers early childhood education for grades PK through K in a nonsectarian, city–based setting.

The school enrolls 15 students with a student–teacher ratio of 8:1 supported by two teachers.

The student population is 100% students of color, ranking the school among the top 20% of private schools in Mississippi for diversity.

Tuition information is not listed; local elementary private school tuition averages $17,220 annually in Jackson, MS.

Adhiambo School was first designed as a learning institute for preschool and kindergarten children.

Two years later, the school expanded to third through fifth grade.

It sought to establish and perpetuate moral attitudes and values to develop and add to the children's personalities and character, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherliness, kindliness and charity.

The aim has been to be loving, concerned, working advocates for children and youth, to strengthen attitudes of self determination by developing sound academic programs.

It is also our aim to motivate through positive cultural images, and provide a well-rounded curriculum with trips It is also our aim to motivate through positive cultural images, and provide a well-rounded curriculum with trips and experiences to supplement the classroom and textbooks.and experiences to supplement the classroom and textbooks.

We encourage the teaching of values in a systematic way that reflects views encompassing the social, economic, political, spiritual, and emotional ramifications that Africans face in this country and throughout the world.

The value system, self concept based on identity, purpose and direction, culture and community in education, and the historic approach is the key to learning.