The mission of Community Leadership Academy is:
To provide a college preparatory education to the economically and ethnically diverse District 14 students in kindergarten through eighth grade; to provide a rigorous and creative educational atmosphere which promotes a life-long love of learning, academic excellence, character development, civic leadership, community involvement, appreciation of arts, culture and human diversity; and to provide a clean, safe, healthy, and vibrant educational environment where all students achieve their full potential.
Hope:
We believe that every child and member of the CLA community is expected to achieve their full potential and has a destiny to improve our world.
Learning:
We believe in the craft of education; providing a rigorous and creative curriculum in an atmosphere of academic excellence which promotes a life-long love of learning; so when people choose to place their children in our hands, we are committed as practitioners to ensure they are in the very best of hands.
Possibilities:
We believe in providing college preparatory education; our students and staff are not limited by race, socio-economic background, ethnicity or prior educational performance. Previous challenges are doorways to creativity and innovation; what may appear to have been liabilities are now opportunities to discover possibilities.
Collaboration:
We believe the cultivation of individual gifts and talents changes things; the collaboration of those gifts and talents can change everything. We encourage interest at all levels of the CLA community and promote involvement in the larger community in which we live.
Leadership:
We believe CLA is a hands-on environment for character development, civic leadership, appreciation of the arts and cultural diversity and equipping the pioneers, explorers, discoverers, and leaders of the twenty-first century.
