The first floor of the American Spirit building (above), along West Fifth Street, in downtown East Liverpool, will be the home and campus base of the new school, pictured at top in a computer rendering. Grades 9-12 was expected to move to the new location from the Glenmoor site for classes this fall, but construction delays have forced a postponement. (Photo by Michael D. McElwain)

EAST LIVERPOOL — While the date has been pushed to January, high school students at East Liverpool Christian School will still find themselves attending classes downtown. But that’s not all. Students anywhere in the world will be able to earn an Ohio high school diploma through the school formerly known as the East Liverpool Christian School (ELCS). The expanded school has a new name, a new location, and a new blend of classroom and online instruction in four distinct K-12 programs — all while keeping its Christian focus. “This is going to be a school like no other,” Craig Newbold, a member of the ELCS Board of Directors and President/CEO of the American Spirit Initiative, said. “It provides new options including a classical high-performance Latin program, career outcome tracks, and an online international studies program and adds a huge catalog of online courses to the Christian School’s traditional values-based classroom instruction.