Description
North Central Texas Academy at Happy Hill Farm is a broadly diverse college preparatory boarding school where bright and talented children, regardless of their financial situation, are educated, trained, and mentored to become future leaders with character and integrity.
History
Happy Hill Farm was opened in 1975, with 20 students in a mobile home. In 1977, an old house was moved to the property, refurbished, and became a new home for the school. Renovated classroom buildings, purchased for a pittance from the FWISD, were added the next year. The first five boys taken into care were living with the Shipmans and the Browns (HHF’s first employees) in a leased residence on the campus. Dreams were large. Bank accounts were small, comprised primarily of the Shipman family’s savings. Skeptics were in abundance, but the Shipmans clung doggedly to what they believed was God’s calling for their lives: to provide a safe haven and a residential school where underprivileged students could turn their dreams into a reality. Now, decades later, North Central Texas Academy, located on the beautiful, 500-acre campus of Happy Hill Farm, has grown into one of the finest private, fully-accredited, Christian boarding and day schools in the country. Underprivileged students on scholarship, international, and local day students — all with the motivation, determination, and ability to pursue higher education and success in life — study within college-preparatory environment taught from a Christian worldview.
Financial Status
Tax ID
51-02365302013 Revenue
$7,558,274.00
2013 Net Assets
$22,087,976.00