The Paul Laurence Dunbar Academy’s mission is to educate, excite and empower students:

At all times, excellence is the achievable goal.

Having a significant curricular emphasis on the performing and visual arts, the Paul Laurence Dunbar Academy combines the proven benefits of an arts-based curriculum while fully integrating a core curriculum based on Ohio’s Academic Content Standards, addressing and improving “traditional” academic skills.

The Academy’s curriculum is fully integrated and cross-disciplinary with its basis in the research of Kathleen Harris, Sonoma State University.  The course work is designed to be inquiry based and student centered.

The Academy’s curriculum has been designed to benefit from and to foster educational expertise on the part of the teaching staff.  Kindergarten and first grade are self-contained classrooms while teachers, with especially developed skills or interests in the four core subjects, are responsible for teaching the subject in which they are most adept to students in the upper grades.

Students

2006-2007 School Report Card

2005-2006 School Report Card