Our Story

Tabernacle Christian Academy was founded in 1976 by Ocie Booker to offer quality education from a panoramic aspect. He sensed the moral decline in the public school system more than 40 years ago and decided to challenge parents everywhere to allow TCA to educate their children.  From its inception TCA has educated more than 16,000 children, with more than 95% of those students graduating and attending colleges of their choice.  TCA had grown from its eight initial students in 1976 to become the largest minority owned private school in the state of Illinois.  For nearly 40 years, Tabernacle Christian Academy had given children the educational, personal, and professional tools that has produced stable, highly accomplished adults who are leaders in their professions.