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4worldlovers: We have discovered that by integrating the arts and technology into our academic program we create a more hands-on learning environment that better fits the learning styles of our diverse population of students. To accomplish this, we employ only Arizona certified teachers in areas and seek out partnerships with volunteer agencies, schools of higher learning and community businesses. A variety of artists from the community work with our students creating a positive climate that celebrates the gifts of each student. Recently, the Arizona Charter School Association rated Mesa Arts Academy as one of the top three schools in Arizona for increasing student achievement and the Arizona Department of Education honored us with the 2011 Math Excellence Award.

Our classrooms are enriched with numerous volunteers from partnerships with Mesa Community College, ASU, and the Volunteer Center. Federal grants provide an aide in every classroom to assist the teacher and students. Mesa Arts Academy offers after-school care onsite, as well as the National Free and Reduced breakfast and lunch program to those who qualify.

Our school day is extended by an hour to allow us to both have a rigorous academic program and still have time to devote to our arts programs. Our art classes vary by grade level, with younger children taking a variety of art classes, including Drama, Musical Theatre, Dance and Visual Arts. Older children select from elective classes, including Beginning and Advanced Art, Guitar, Dance, Photography, Yearbook, Drama, Service Learning, Multimedia, and Musical Theatre. Parents are required to be active participants in this process with a daily requirement to check and sign “home-school binders.”

Parents are encouraged to take an active role in all aspects of the school program, including hours of volunteer time at school.

Students are accepted into the Academy on a first-come first-served basis, with siblings of enrolled students, children of staff and continuing students given priority. A sibling is defined as a brother or sister, or minor residing in the same household. The entire registration packet must be completed and submitted to the school before a student can be accepted for enrollment. If there is no space available for new students at particular grade levels, those children will be placed on a waiting list and their families will be notified as soon as an opening is available.

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At NSAA, we are excited to offer our students the opportunity to pursue one or several of the following State of Arizona Diploma Seals upon graduation and completion of the State specified qualifications. Click below to learn more!

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Average Salary of all full time teachers employed in budget year 2024- $50,500

Average Salary of all full time teachers employed in budget year 2023- $46,500

New School for the Arts (NSA) is Arizona's premier Charter school by providing students who have an interest and talent in the arts with a superior integrated academic and arts program.

To provide students with training, knowledge and experience to pursue a career and continuing higher education in the performing or visual arts. (Assessment form: tracking students post-graduates; develop general articulation agreements with arts colleges and 4 year universities; maintaining co-operation and evaluation with internship placements in arts organizations, etc.)

To enable students to make cognitive connections in academic subjects and the arts by providing an interdisciplinary curriculum with an arts focus aligned with the Arizona Academic Standards in mathematics, sciences, social studies, and language arts. (Assessment form: performance-based writing assessments on interdisciplinary topics; journal keeping; performance on essential skills norm-referenced testing; etc.)

To provide instruction by practicing, professional artists in the performing and visual arts, who will serve as educator, facilitator and mentor in the student's development as an artist

4worldlovers: The School of Arts, Media and Engineering educates the next generation of learners and empowers them with technofluency – its development, application and implications. The School of Arts, Media and Engineering prepares students to be socially aware, critically thinking global citizens who strive to bring about positive change in a society that will be increasingly shaped by revolutions in new technologies.

Develop technologies to enhance, augment and enrich human experience and sense-making.

Create new modes of collaborative, artistic, performance and maker practices with tangible, computational and conceptual media.

4worldlovers: Nothing embodies music more than the PAC with its symbolic representation of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” incorporated into the exterior design of the building. With 450 seats and two performance spaces built for exceptional acoustics and visibility, the PAC enchants audiences with more than just a show — it charms with a superior musical experience.

After years of design and planning, the MCC Performing Arts Center opened in 2014, bringing to the East Valley a much desired performance venue. Originally debuting in October 1979 as a Harkins Movie Theatre, it was operated by Mann Theatres. Thirty years later, MCC purchased the Harkins and adjacent Fuddruckers properties. In fall 2004, voters approved a $951 million bond for the Maricopa County Community College District, which included funding for MCC to expand and remodel the former movie theater.

Designed by Jones Studio of Phoenix, construction of the PAC began in 2012 and includes a 450-seat theatre. Extensive remodeling of what was the old Harkins building resulted in a band room, choral room and production support space.

Dr. Rodney Holmes, MCC Dean of Instruction, said “In the past, MCC held almost 100 performances around the East Valley that will now have a home in our state-of-the-art teaching and performance facility. This will help us reduce the expenses for renting performance space and decrease the demands on the MCC Theatre. The new Performing Arts Center showcases the talents of students, faculty and staff while providing opportunities for the community to enjoy the performing arts.”