Napa Christian is a Seventh-day Adventist school with grade levels from K through 12. It was founded in 1949 as Napa Adventist Junior Academy, and in 1993 changed its name to Napa Christian. It offers a standard academic curriculum in addition to teaching religious principles. School-wide there are 159 students. There are 40 high schoolers. Many high schoolers like sharing a school with their younger counterparts because it gives them an opportunity to be role models. Five high school students graduated in 2011 -- the school's seventh graduating high school class.
The Kolbe Academy is an institution founded on the principals of home-schooling. Associated with the Kolbe Prep school, the academy serves families worldwide. It offers a classical curriculum with high school study offering elected options for students whereby parents may move above and below the chronology level of the subject areas as needed. Its graduates have gone on to institutions such as Yale, Harvard and Notre Dame.
In 1948, Rev. Paul Price began holding Napa's first Pentecostal prayer meetings in a tent on Soscol Avenue. The congregation that formed in that vacant lot went on to found New Life Tabernacle, where Rev. Price has continued to preach for more than half a century. The church is now located on First Street just west of Highway 29 and east of First Christian Church.