DISTRICT MISSION STATEMENT & PHILOSOPHY
It is a shared responsibility of the entire Mountain School Community to provide all students with a high-quality education by creating a rich, safe, joyful and diverse learning environment.   We celebrate each individual's uniqueness and challenge all to reach their highest potential. Our community is based on mutual respect and inspires a life-long love of learning.  Mountain School provides opportunities for all students to expand their creative abilities, and attain maximum academic growth in accordance with their individual needs and interests. It empowers students to take responsibility for their learning.
Mountain School believes in a developmental approach to learning, whereby students are given the resources to be challenged and to progress at their own pace in a variety of learning modes.  Mountain School is committed to the core value that excellence in education necessitates a high quality, challenging instructional program provided by teachers and administration and support by parents. Parents engage in well-crafted, coordinated fundraising efforts to ensure students receive a comprehensive program.  Evidence of this success is the integration of arts education, including visual, music, drama, and dance curriculum as part of the TK-6 core program.  Over the course of their elementary careers, students display outstanding public speaking and writing skills;  these invaluable skills serve them well over the course of their secondary school experience.
Professional collaboration and research-based resources are used to create an effective, rigorous and stimulating learning climate of academic excellence.  Mountain School provides opportunities for all students to expand their creative abilities and attain maximum academic growth in accordance with their individual needs and interests. In addition, Mountain School empowers students to take responsibility for their learning.  A physically and emotionally supportive atmosphere is essential to an engaging learning environment. Diversity is a valued resource necessary to develop tolerance, respect and greater understanding. The key to a first-rate, world-class education is the regular monitoring of student progress utilizing our identified grade level assessments. We use our local measures of school performance in addition to state-level assessments.