The mission of STARS Academy is to successfully educate all students through deep academic inquiry and creativity of the arts (musical theater integration) through flexible mixed-age groupings. Through small group, standards-based instruction (at students' individualized levels), we are able to ensure students are mastering concepts before moving on to new ones. Through STARS Academy’s model, students will develop positive self-esteem, respect, empathy, and respect for cultural diversity as they learn in a child-centered environment led by highly-qualified educators. Through our social-emotional focus, we foster a safe learning environment where we instill intrinsic motivation rather than external rewards. We provide students with the opportunity to problem-solve, self-express, be autonomous, and we empower them to take initiative and play an active role in their learning experience.

INQUIRY

CREATIVITY

COMMUNITY

DIVERSITY

AUTONOMY

SELF-EXPRESSION

STARS Academy believes that infusing the arts into an engaging, coherent, relevant, diversely-accessible, and rigorous standards-based curriculum provides students with the academic, social, and technical skills and attitudes necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Our goal is to inspire a love of learning for students through cooperation, critical thinking, and self-direction, while simultaneously empowering our learners to evaluate, organize, and produce solutions to be successful in a complex technological and artistic world. STARS Academy students strive to be better versions of themselves.