Our Mission

To create an environment of academic  success built on the pillars of college readiness, community service,  civic duty, and self discipline.

Our Vision

Every student will be prepared to succeed at the nations top institutions of higher learning.

Our Values

Belief Statements: 

1. High Expectations: All students will have high expectations placed upon them to succeed, and will be supported to succeed by administration and teachers.
2. Opportunities for success: All students will be presented with a multitude of clubs, sports and activities to enhance their high school experience.
3. Quality Educators: All students will be taught by highly qualified and effective educators that will have high expectations placed upon them. They will have the core belief that ALL students can learn.
4. Safety: All students will be provided a safe environment where learning comes first.

The school will sustain a strong core area focus with rigorous content preparing students for Advanced Placement and college. With AVID strategies infused throughout the curriculum, students will experience four years of critical reading strategies, writing inquiry, collaboration, reflection, Socratic seminars, Costa's and Bloom's Levels of Questioning, Cornell note-taking as well as test taking strategies.

AVID (a research-based program designed to target and support average students and bring them to the top) is a staple component of the school.

Arizona State Board of Charter School Mission Statement:
The mission of Mission Heights Preparatory Academy is to inspire, challenge and prepare our students to become independent adults who will succeed as lifelong learners, creative problem solvers and responsible citizens who contribute to their community.

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