Mission and Essential Question

Our Mission

Creative Arts Charter School (CACS) engages K-8 students in an equitable and academically rigorous education through arts-integrated and interdisciplinary study. Our public school community cultivates curiosity and joy. Students are empowered to develop a sense of self, responsibility, and advocacy to effect and create change in their communities and the world.

Our Essential Question

What will it take for us – individually and collectively – to remain urgently, relentlessly committed to interrupt adult-centered and Eurocentric (or white supremacy cultural) practices in our school and hold ourselves and each other accountable for anti-racist, art-centered classrooms rooted in love that insist on the success and sense of belonging of our Black students and our students with IEPs?

The Essential Question is our commitment to ensuring that all students equitably experience our mission and values, providing them the opportunity to achieve our vision. It drives us to continually reflect on and improve our practices to ensure we are providing an inclusive, equitable, and supportive environment for all our students.