First Assembly Christian School
{{For|the school that formerly had the same name in North Carolina|Concord First Assembly Academy}}
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{{Infobox school
| name = First Assembly Christian School
| native_name = FACS
| motto = Training Minds, Shaping Lives for the Savior's Glory
| established = 1972
| type = Private, co-educational
| religion = Christianity
| denomination = Non-denominational
| teaching_staff =
| grades = pre-K–12
| streetaddress = 8650 Walnut Grove Road
| city = Memphis
| zipcode =38018
| state = Tennessee
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{Coord|35.1275498|-89.7765746|display=title,inline}}
| pushpin_map = Tennessee
| colors = {{color box|#1a3e2f|Green}} and {{color box|#9e9269|Gold}}
| nickname = Crusaders
| free_label = Emblem
| website = [http://www.facsmemphis.org www.facsmemphis.org]
}}
First Assembly Christian school (FACS) is a private, college preparatory Christian school located in the Cordova section of Memphis, Tennessee. FACS was founded as First Assembly of God Christian School in 1972 to preserve white-only school in response to a federal court order requiring integrated schools. The school was initially located on Highland Street in Memphis before moving to Walnut Grove in Cordova.{{cite news |last1=Peace |first1=Sheila |title=Flaws in the clause? |publisher=Memphis Press-Scimitar |date=February 25, 1982 |page=C1 |quote=Private schools formed in Memphis after the federal court desegregation decree of 1971 include Briarcrest Baptist High School, First Assembly Christian School, Memphis Prep, Sky View Christian Academy, Whitehaven Methodist Day School and Woodland Presbyterian School}}{{cite news |title=Graduation Honor |publisher=Memphis Commercial Appeal |date=May 22, 1997 |page=EM2 |quote=In commemoration of First Assembly of God Christian School's 25 years of service, one of the founders of the school, pastor Wallace Weber, was the commencement speaker at May 19 graduation ceremonies.}}
History
According to the historian Marcus Pohlmann, FACS was established in 1972 as part of a wave of private schools formed by white parents seeking to avoid sending their children to racially integrated public schools.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUc1MkdSp4EC&pg=PA85|title=Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools| last=Pohlmann| first=Marcus D. |author-link = Marcus Pohlmann|date=2008| page=85| publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press|isbn=9781572336384|language=en |oclc = 226304697}}
Demographics
For the 2021-2022 school year, the school had 512 students in grade PK-12, of whom 6 were American Indian/Alaska Natives, 9 were Asian, 105 were Black, 38 were Hispanic, 297 were White, and 26 were of two or more races.{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?HiGrade=-1&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&NumOfStudentsRange=more&SchoolName=sc&Search=1&SchoolPageNum=190&ID=01296913 |website=NCES |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=October 13, 2023 |title=First Assembly Christian School}}