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Conceived in 1994 and officially established in 1998, Veritas was a non-denominational private
Christian school serving the greater Jackson area. The campus was located at the former Colonial Heights Baptist Church building on Old Canton Road in Jackson until 2009, and then in facilities shared with
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Veritas School was a 6th – 12th grade Christian school. The school's stated mission was to equip the next generation of Christian leaders to think and live biblically. The Veritas School is not affiliated with any individual church or denomination. The Veritas School closed in 2015.
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Rhetoric classes, and students are encouraged to apply biblical concepts to other subjects across the curriculum. The school also held a non-denominational statement of faith comprising general evangelical tenets.
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Veritas
Introduction, 2013: http://theveritasschool.org/introduction/
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Veritas
Distinctives, 2013: http://theveritasschool.org/distinctives/
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Teachers and staff were required to affirm the statement of faith.
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Veritas School
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Veritas
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558:secondary
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