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The City School mission reflects the following three values: educational excellence, diversity, and community.
Educational Excellence:
Definitively, this is an employment of best practices providing a child-centered, thoughtful, inspired education that rigorously challenges students to achieve and excel. Concentration goes far beyond attaining high standardized test scores, but to the less quantifiable goals of shaping talented, well-rounded humanitarians. City students will be thinkers and debaters; they will be taught to question, engage, argue and respect; students who make good on empathy by lending and exemplifying dignity, poise, and reverence. Good kids with great minds.
Community:
COMMUNITY means we harness the energy and spirit of our community through volunteerism and partnerships to better serve our students. Parents are asked to give 50 hours a year in volunteer time. This community involvement translates into more financial stability and a richer educational environment.
Diversity:
The City School is wholly committed to serving a diverse student body and creating a mixed socioeconomic status student population (“mixed SES”). Horace Mann’s concept of “the common school” will be followed, where children of all backgrounds gather under one roof to learn together and from one another. While school districts across the country are “re-segregating” by race and socio-economic status (particularly after the Supreme Court struck down race-based desegregation), there is a nascent movement toward mixed SES schools and school districts.
In Los Angeles, a city that is known as both the wealth and poverty capital of the world, schools like Community Magnet Charter School, Open Magnet Charter School, Larchmont Charter School and Larchmont Charter – West Hollywood, Valley Charter School, and The City School bridge this divide. There is evidence that low–income children see significant academic gains from attending a mixed SES school (David Rusk). Our goal is to be 40–50% low–income, and 50% non-white.
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