Pine Castle Christian Academy is a small Christian private school founded in Pine Castle, Florida, an area that sits on a border between Belle Isle and Orlando, Florida. Now independent and non-denominational, the school was founded by Pine Castle United Methodist Church under the name Methodist Country Kindergarten; PCCA has been a K-12 academy since 1983, when it received its current name.HistoryIn 1954, Pine Castle United Methodist Church, founded the school as a ministry exclusively for kindergarteners, then called Methodist Country Kindergarten. The kindergarten became an academy in 1983, when the church opened PCCA to first through sixth grade students. Each year after that, it successively introduced one more grade level, until, in 1990, the first senior class graduated.During the mid-2000s, PCCA grew to over 600 students, about 200 of whom were high schoolers. The academy achieved its first state-level athletic victory in 2006; after three more state titles in the following year, all Pine Castle Christian Academy athletic teams were classified as 2A, except for football, which remained a 1B sport.During the 2009-2010 school year PCCA was informed that their current facilities were no longer going to be available to them. Instead a public charter school would be renting the facilities and so PCCA had to find new facilities. After searching they found their new facilities which were the former Darden training facilities. A grand opening celebration was held on September 7, 2010 and school started for the 2010-2011 school year on September 8, 2010. Since then they have constructed new softball and football fields on nearby fields to enrich the athletic program.
