The Classical Academy Middle School

Amazing little school with highly qualified veteran teachers. Wonderful school culture- it is clear the staff loves each other and what they do. Staff members are respectful of students and value/teach using personalized learning. My student attends and has a learning disability and has made huge growth AND loves school. Also features an amazing STEAM program and a very talented library staff. Very thankful for this school and the experience my child has had.

I have loved working at the da Vinci Academy for the last three years. I am a military spouse and I have worked in three states (6 schools) during my husband's career. The da Vinci Academy staff is loving, kind, and caring like no other school I've had the privilege to work in. If you are considering coming here please know what we DO and DO NOT do. We do NOT teach exclusively art. This is not an ART school. It's an Arts Integration school. We offer a rigorous curriculum that aligns with state and district standards. We teach normal math, reading, science, social studies, etc. Your student will have tests, homework, and other "normal" school experiences. However, we teach with an art integration focus. That means that your child can engage in art in three ways. The first is art just for the sake of art. This happens in the Encores, which some people call our extracurriculars. The second is art-enhanced teaching. This is going to be adding an art component to core instruction like painting your spelling words with watercolors. The third way is true arts- integration. This is when your student will display what they have learned using an art standard. For example, my students recently used drama and movement standards to create a dance showing the movement of objects in space (rotation and revolution of the sun, moon, and stars. We DO offer a communication and sensory department. This department specialized in incorporating students with communication and sensory needs into the classroom. These are usually kids on the autism spectrum. I consider it an amazing bonus that we get to have this program at our school. The people who work in this department are so kind and bend over backward looking for ways to meet the individual needs of neurodivergent kids. We are NOT a behavior school. We do not have the programming or staff to support students with severe behavioral needs. If your student struggles in this way this is NOT the best fit for them. Our district has three schools on the elementary level that can support those needs we are just not it. We DO offer both resources and a gifted and talented program. At this time we only have one of each so although we can support most resource needs we only pull out of class for 3-5th gifted and talented needs. I hope that this gives you a better insight into what we are about. I hope to see you here if this is the best fit for your student.

Do not send you special education students to this school - they will make you feel like your child is not good enough to be in their classroom. It’s an awful experience.