West Highlands

This school is the best Charter in the APS district, in our opinion, and we've been in the city for 13 years. The teachers truly care about each individual child, and since it's a smaller charter school, the teachers and administration know everyone by name. Our children have benefited from the gifted program, as well as had supports with 504 plan special services, and both have been absolutely excellent. Our kids love coming to school. They even put 15 hammocks in the garden during Milestone testing week, so that the kids could enjoy some vitamin D and fresh air, after hard days of testing. The extracurricular options are great: band, art, science club, Latin dancing, etc. They also have Mommy/Son Sneakerball and Father/Daughter dances, a Thanksgiving Family meal, as well as a fun Parent Happy Hour at local taproom. It's small, diverse, and from the top down, they care about the right things and the whole child. Highly recommend. My only complaint is they don't go through High School! ;)