A Strong Christian Beginning for aLifetime of Learning
At the Lighthouse Milton K–5 Campus, young students build strong academic foundations while growing in faith, confidence, responsibility, friendship, and a love of learning.
Through caring instruction, hands-on discovery, creativity, movement, and age-appropriate expectations, students are encouraged to ask questions, practice new skills, and recognize the abilities God has given them.
6163 Dogwood Drive, Milton, FL 32570
Growing Together as Lighthouse Stingrays
Elementary Education WithFaith at the Center
The elementary years shape how a child approaches school, relationships, responsibility, and new challenges. At the Milton K–5 Campus, students learn within a caring Christian environment where academic growth and character development belong together.
Teachers help students strengthen essential skills while encouraging curiosity, effort, kindness, respect, perseverance, and increasing independence. Families remain important partners throughout that process.
Christian Foundation
Biblical values help shape classroom relationships, personal conduct, decision-making, and the way students are encouraged to treat others.
Caring Instruction
Teachers help students practice new skills, work through challenges, and experience the satisfaction that comes with progress.
Positive Routines
Students learn to listen, follow directions, organize their work, use time wisely, and take increasing responsibility for age-appropriate tasks.
Family Partnership
Parents and guardians are encouraged to communicate with the school and remain involved in their child's growth.
Strong Skills Begin inElementary School
Elementary students need more than facts to memorize. They need essential skills, patient practice, clear instruction, meaningful feedback, and opportunities to connect new ideas to what they already understand. The Milton K–5 Campus helps students build foundations they can carry into middle school and beyond.
Reading
Students develop age-appropriate skills in letter and sound recognition, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and thoughtful reading.
Writing and Communication
Students practice handwriting, spelling, grammar, sentence development, written expression, speaking, and listening.
Mathematics
Students build number sense, accuracy, mathematical reasoning, problem-solving skills, and confidence working through increasingly complex concepts.
Science and Discovery
Students explore age-appropriate scientific ideas by observing, asking questions, comparing information, and connecting lessons to the world around them.
Social Studies
Students learn about people, communities, geography, history, citizenship, and the responsibilities individuals share within a community.
Christian Learning
Biblical truth and Christian character are woven through the school day, helping students understand that learning and faith belong together.
Strong foundations are built one step at a time through instruction, practice, encouragement, correction, and persistence.
Curriculum, instructional materials, activities, assessment practices, and support options may vary by grade and current school resources.
Hands-On Discovery forGrowing Minds
Young students often understand ideas more clearly when they can see, touch, build, move, organize, compare, and create. Hands-on learning helps connect classroom concepts to practical experiences.
At the Milton K–5 Campus, age-appropriate activities can help students become more curious, more confident, and more willing to work through a problem.
Build and Create
Students can strengthen planning, coordination, creativity, and persistence through age-appropriate construction and design activities.
Measure and Compare
Practical measurement, sorting, patterns, shapes, and quantities help connect mathematics to everyday experiences.
Observe and Explore
Guided observation encourages students to notice details, ask questions, and explain what they discover.
Make and Improve
Students learn that a first attempt does not have to be the final result. Revising and trying again are valuable parts of learning.
Work Together
Small-group activities help students listen, share materials, communicate ideas, and contribute to a common goal.
Connect Learning to Life
Practical examples help students understand why reading, writing, mathematics, science, and responsibility matter outside the classroom.
Hands-on learning at the elementary level is about building curiosity, coordination, confidence, and problem-solving—not job training.
Learning You Can See and Touch
When students build, sort, measure, and create, they turn classroom ideas into something they can explore, revise, and understand more deeply.
The Milton K–5 Campus uses hands-on activities to build an age-appropriate foundation for Milton's broader hands-on educational identity.
Helping Children Grow inKnowledge and Character
Christian education includes what students learn and how they learn to treat others. At Lighthouse, faith helps guide relationships, responsibility, honesty, kindness, forgiveness, service, and respect.
Kindness
Students are encouraged to notice others, speak with care, and offer help.
Respect
Children learn to respect teachers, classmates, families, school expectations, and the learning environment.
Responsibility
Age-appropriate responsibilities help students understand that their choices and effort matter.
Perseverance
Students are encouraged to keep trying when a lesson, task, or skill feels difficult.
Service
Children can begin learning that their gifts and abilities may be used to help others.
Character grows through instruction, example, encouragement, correction, practice, and partnership between school and family.
Movement Is an ImportantPart of Childhood
Movement, play, games, and age-appropriate athletics can help elementary students develop coordination, confidence, teamwork, healthy habits, self-control, and positive ways to respond to success and disappointment.
At Lighthouse, the values of effort, respect, encouragement, and sportsmanship matter more than winning.
Coordination
Movement helps children practice balance, control, body awareness, and age-appropriate physical skills.
Teamwork
Games and group activities teach students to cooperate, communicate, and support others.
Confidence
Learning and practicing a new skill can help students recognize their progress.
Listening
Students practice following directions, understanding rules, and responding to instruction.
Sportsmanship
Children learn to participate with honesty, respect, encouragement, humility, and self-control.
Stingray Spirit
School activities help students feel connected to classmates and the larger Lighthouse community.
Elementary athletics should help children learn, participate, move, and grow. A child's worth is never determined by a score or athletic ability.
Ask About Current Elementary Opportunities
Available activities, sports, teams, grade levels, schedules, locations, participation requirements, transportation, equipment, and costs may change. Contact the Milton Campus for current information.
Contact LighthouseA Place for Friendship,Creativity and Belonging
Elementary school is also where children learn how to participate in a community. Classroom activities, Christian fellowship, creativity, movement, school traditions, and time with classmates help students build meaningful connections.
Christian Community
Prayer, biblical values, encouragement, and service help shape the campus atmosphere.
Creativity
Age-appropriate art, writing, music, imaginative thinking, and classroom projects may give students different ways to express what they understand.
Friendship and Cooperation
Students practice sharing, listening, solving disagreements, including others, and being part of a classroom community.
Stingray School Spirit
Campus activities and traditions help students and families feel connected to Lighthouse.
Activities, clubs, performances, field trips, enrichment, athletics, and school events vary by grade and current availability.
Meeting Students at TheirStage of Development
Kindergarten and First Grade
Young learners begin building classroom routines, early literacy, number sense, communication, independence, and confidence participating in a school community.
Second and Third Grade
Students continue strengthening foundational skills while reading, writing, calculating, explaining, organizing, and completing work with greater independence.
Fourth and Fifth Grade
Older elementary students prepare for the expectations of middle school by developing stronger comprehension, problem-solving, written communication, organization, responsibility, and study habits.
Children grow at different rates and may have different academic, social, and developmental needs. Families should speak directly with Lighthouse about available placement and support.
What Families CanConsider
Choosing an elementary school is an important family decision. A campus visit and honest conversation can help you understand whether the environment, expectations, and available services are appropriate for your child.
- You want Christian values included in your child's education.
- You value strong foundations in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies.
- Your child benefits from clear routines and age-appropriate expectations.
- You want learning to include practical, hands-on experiences.
- You value creativity, movement, friendship, and teamwork.
- You want character and personal responsibility developed alongside academics.
- You value direct communication between families and the school.
- You want your child to grow within the larger Lighthouse Stingray community.
Every child's circumstances are different. Lighthouse reviews grade availability, enrollment, placement, student needs, available services, and campus fit individually.
How to Begin at theMilton K–5 Campus
You do not need to have every question answered before contacting Lighthouse. Begin with a conversation and learn what the Milton Campus currently offers for your child's grade level.
01 — Learn About the Campus
Review the Milton K–5 academics, Christian environment, hands-on learning, student life, tuition, scholarships, and enrollment information.
02 — Ask Your Questions
Contact the campus to discuss grade availability, your child's needs, school expectations, daily routines, and current activities.
03 — Schedule a Visit
Request an opportunity to see the campus, meet the team, and determine whether the environment may be a good fit.
04 — Submit the Application
Complete the secure Lighthouse application with accurate family and student information.
05 — Complete the Admissions Review
Provide requested records and participate in any meeting, academic review, placement process, or follow-up required by Lighthouse.
If admission is approved, Lighthouse will explain the remaining enrollment, tuition, scholarship, document, and campus requirements.
Submitting an application begins the admissions process. It does not, by itself, reserve a seat or confirm admission.
Understand Tuition, Fees andScholarship Options
Families should review current tuition, fees, scholarship information, and possible additional expenses before making an enrollment decision.
Tuition & Fees
Review current tuition, school fees, payment information, programs, and important qualifications.
View Tuition & FeesScholarship Information
Learn about scholarship pathways, funding organizations, family responsibilities, and steps that remain separate from school admission.
Explore ScholarshipsSchool admission and scholarship funding are separate processes. Lighthouse does not determine a family's scholarship eligibility. A scholarship does not automatically reserve a seat or guarantee that every school, activity, uniform, supply, or program charge will be covered.
Leadership at theMilton K–5 Campus
Nichole Blue
Executive Principal
Find the Milton K–5 Campus
Lighthouse Private Christian Academy
Milton K–5 Campus
6163 Dogwood Drive
Milton, FL 32570
Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Some activities may take place away from the main campus. Contact Lighthouse for current schedules, locations, and transportation information.
Christian Elementary EducationClose to Home
Located on Dogwood Drive, the Milton K–5 Campus serves families seeking a private Christian elementary education in Milton and surrounding Santa Rosa County communities.
Families may come from Milton, Pace, Avalon, East Milton, Bagdad, and nearby areas. Campus placement and transportation remain the responsibility of each family unless Lighthouse confirms another arrangement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What grades does the Milton elementary campus serve?
The Milton K–5 Campus serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Contact Lighthouse to confirm current availability for your child's grade.
Where is the Milton K–5 Campus located?
The campus is located at 6163 Dogwood Drive, Milton, Florida 32570. Families can call (850) 417-6380 or use the directions link on this page.
What are the elementary school hours?
The currently published hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Families should confirm arrival, dismissal, calendar, and schedule information directly with the campus.
Is Lighthouse a Christian elementary school?
Yes. Christian principles help shape learning, relationships, character development, personal responsibility, and school life.
What academic subjects are taught?
Elementary students build foundations in reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and Christian learning. Specific curriculum, materials, and activities may vary by grade and school year.
What does hands-on learning mean for elementary students?
Hands-on learning allows children to explore age-appropriate ideas through activities such as observing, measuring, sorting, building, comparing, creating, discussing, and solving problems.
Does the Milton K–5 Campus provide trade training?
No. Trade and vocational training are not the purpose of the K–5 program. Hands-on elementary learning builds curiosity, coordination, reasoning, creativity, cooperation, and practical problem-solving foundations.
Are athletics available for elementary students?
Age-appropriate movement, games, activities, or athletic opportunities may be available. Families should contact the campus for current sports, grade levels, schedules, requirements, locations, transportation, and costs.
Does admission guarantee athletic participation?
No. Admission does not guarantee placement on a team, participation in a particular activity, or playing time. Current grade requirements, eligibility, availability, conduct expectations, and program rules apply.
Are scholarships available?
Families may be eligible to pursue assistance through an applicable scholarship funding organization. Scholarship eligibility and school admission are separate processes, and funding may not cover every school or activity charge.
Does Lighthouse provide transportation?
Families should contact the Milton Campus for current transportation information. Transportation should not be assumed for every student, neighborhood, activity, or off-campus event.
How do I schedule a visit?
Call the Milton Campus at (850) 417-6380 or use the Lighthouse contact page to request information and discuss a campus visit.
How do I apply?
Review the Lighthouse enrollment information and complete the secure online application. Submitting an application begins the admissions review but does not automatically confirm admission or reserve a seat.
Give Your Child aStrong Beginning
Visit the Milton K–5 Campus, meet the team, and discover a Christian elementary community where students can learn, create, move, build friendships, and grow in confidence and character.
Call (850) 417-6380