New Heights Charter School Vision and Mission:
New Heights was founded in 2006 based
on the idea that rigorous learning requires a caring learning community and that students’
academic, social, emotional, and physical development are connected. New Heights has been
recognized as one of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Middle Schools and one of America’s
Healthiest Schools All Stars by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
New Heights Charter offers:
Small class sizes with high-quality teachers
Free breakfast, lunch, and snack
Enrichment: arts, robotics, STEAM, cooking, sewing, and dance.
Expanded Day: Free Before School, Afterschool, Summer School, and Intersession
(during holiday breaks) Programs
TK-8 th Grade: Students start their schooling in Transitional Kindergarten at age 4 and
continue through Middle School grade 8.
New Heights is a highly collaborative learning community, providing a cohesive and
coordinated experience for students as they progress through the school, TK-8 th grade.
Our mission is to provide a safe, supportive, and engaging environment, so that all students are
comfortable to take the risks necessary for learning. The school culture strives to promote
equity, justice, diversity, and belonging as essential values in our school community.
New Heights works to create the conditions in which each person participates, prospers, and
reaches their full potential. Students develop their social – emotional skills in a setting that
allows students to empathize, connect, and collaborate with a diverse group of peers, and
encourages respect for all. Equitable learning environments are designed so that every student
experience an engaging, intellectually rigorous learning environment that is physically and
emotionally safe. Students engage in meaningful and relevant work and classroom discourse,
their cultures and identities are honored, and all students have opportunities to set and meet
goals, and to learn and recover from failure. Students and staff cultivate empathy and work to
develop meaningful connections with others.