Northside Christian Academy is a Christ-centered pre-kindergarten through 12th Grade private school, located in Charlotte, North Carolina accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, AdvancED and the North Carolina Association of Christian Schools. The school was founded in 1961 as a ministry of Northside Baptist Church. The school mascot is the Knight and sports teams are known as the Knights. The school's academics have been well noted with in the community and graduates of Northside have been accepted to major universities such as: Duke University, Davidson College, Princeton Theological Seminary, The Air Force Academy, New York University, the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,