Welcome to Painted Rock Academy!
OUR MISSION is to offer back-to-basics, traditional education by providing a challenging, sequential, teacher-directed, standards-based, textbook-driven curriculum supported by individual accountability and high academic and behavioral standards.
Our New Campus Set to Open in August, 2012
Trees shade the front entrance of the new Painted Rock Academy campus. For more views and further details about our facilities, click here or on the picture above.
$690,000 Grant Awarded to Painted Rock Academy
Reid Traditional Schools’ Painted Rock Academy has been awarded a grant in the amount of $230,000 per year for three years, for a total of $690,000 in funding. The Arizona Charter Schools Program (AZ CSP) recommended Reid Traditional Schools’ Painted Rock Academy to the Arizona State Board of Education for AZ CSP funding at its March 26, 2012 meeting, and that recommendation for a grant has been approved.
The AZ CSP is a competitive start-up grant that supports visionary leaders who will form charter schools that will improve students’ ability to achieve high academic standards. The grant is available only to new charter schools during their planning and implementation phases. Painted Rock Academy will use the AZ CSP grant in the first year to purchase textbooks, train faculty, and implement community outreach. Grant proceeds in years two and three will be used for additional equipment, supplies, and training. Congratulations are due to Painted Rock Academy!
Painted Rock Academy Construction Update, Part Two:
Outdoor Spaces with Room to Run
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Visit the Construction Update, Part Two page for the latest information.
The Facilities page has links to all the updates.
Learn About our School
Painted Rock Academy is a tuition-free public charter school in the Reid Traditional family of schools. We offer a superior education to students in kindergarten through 8th grade. We are opening in August of 2012. Click here to learn more about our program.
Learn About Reid Traditional Schools
Reid Traditional Schools offers a back-to-basics, traditional education to Arizona elementary students. The first school in the Reid family of schools is Valley Academy, an award-winning school that has consistently earned top ratings from the Arizona Department of Education. We are pleased to be able to expand this exceptional educational opportunity to students at Painted Rock Academy. Click here to learn more about Reid Traditional Schools.
Be a Founding Member of the Painted Rock Academy Parent Organization
If you have the passion to make your child’s school the best that it can be, we need your participation in the Painted Rock Academy Parent Organization! Even before the school opens, you can actively make a difference in the Painted Rock Academy experience for our families. Opportunities include party planning, baking, making banners, unpacking boxes, collating fliers, and much more. PRAPO will be established as a parent-governed organization, and guidance will be provided to the new Governing Council. Make the choice to get in on the ground floor of this vital group of committed parents; fill out the volunteer form here. We’ll be in touch soon!
School Construction Begins; The “Inside” Story
How much room does it take to build a school for over 700 students? Reid Traditional School believes 80,000+ square feet will do the trick! That's the size of the building recenlty purchased to house the new Painted Rock Academy and Reid Traditional Schools offices. You can see from the pictures below that the interior space is expansive. Each of these areas will be divided by a central hall with classrooms on either side.
The first step in the indoor construction was to open up the ceiling, which created a lot of debris. Once it was all cleared out,...
Reid Traditional Schools’ Valley Academy Earns an “A” from the Arizona Department of Education!
Just like school children have been doing for a hundred years or more, schools now must take a letter-grade report card home and explain it. In Arizona, schools now are being graded with an A through F letter system.
Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1286 into law in 2010. The new A-F letter grade accountability system was designed to give parents clear information that is easy to understand about how a school is performing.
The current AZ LEARNS accountability system uses students' scores on the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) to determine a label for the school and school district. Labels...