Our mission is to engage students of diverse talents in an intellectually challenging and supportive school culture.  We endeavor to foster in our students self-confidence, integrity, responsibility to their community and a life-long passion for learning.

Community School is a warm and inclusive community that welcomes families and students from diverse backgrounds. We value the richness that our families bring to the school from their various life experiences.

We believe in the importance of creating a learning environment where diverse ideas and multiple opinions can be shared and where students are not afraid to step outside their comfort zone. We encourage our students to take intellectual risks and to become critical and independent thinkers with the ability to examine issues from all sides. 

By exposing students to a variety of ideas and encouraging collaboration with peers, we seek to cultivate citizens who are compassionate, open-minded, and creative in their thought processes. 

Because we are geographically isolated, we understand that exposure to other cultures, traditions, and beliefs is paramount in helping our students become responsible citizens who are aware of the larger global community.

Our small school size and close interpersonal relationships between teachers, students, and parents, support our belief that every member of our community is a worthy and deserving individual who should be accorded respect.

With this in mind, the school is committed to creating a community that is supportive of children, families and teachers of all backgrounds including different learning styles/learning abilities, race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical disability, age, socioeconomic class, and gender.

How we promote diversity at Community School:

1) We promote socio-economic diversity through a robust financial aid program.

2) We include global/international perspectives in our curriculum

3) Our investment in the learning specialist program affirms our mission of accepting students with diverse talents and abilities.

4) We are developing an exchange program with a school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to offer our students a chance to experience another culture.

5) We are actively exploring recruitment of students from other countries as well as from other geographic areas in the United States.

6) We are actively exploring the creation of a scholarship specifically to attract more Latino students.