Arts-Focused Elementary Schools

Overview: Welcome to Belmont-Cragin School and Early Childhood Center, which are located on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Our school educates about 500 students from grades PreK through 8th grade; including English language learners and students with disabilities. Belmont-Cragin has an innovative; Reggio inspired Preschool with a K-8 Personalized Learning and an emerging Dual Language program that is currently up to 5th grade. Our Dual Language curriculum creates bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural students through the implementation of researched based strategies and tools. Through personalized learning, we are providing students with the necessary software platforms, flexible learning environments and projects to become productive members of the ever-changing 21st century. Students have opportunities to learn the Fine Arts through instruction in music, visual art, dance, choir and drama, which students take as a class, as well as, optional classes in music that students are free to sign up for according to their interests. Belmont-Cragin is scheduled to move into a new innovative school and community center campus that will serve students in preschool through 8th grade.

Creative Programs: Choir/Chorus, Guitar, Modern/Hip-Hop Dance, Murals, Musicals, Percussion, Plays/Acting, Student Art Club, Student Music Club, Violin/Strings, Weekend Enrichment

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Franklin Fine Arts Center is dedicated to encouraging and fostering academic and artistic excellence for all students. Instruction is offered in music, dance, art, drama and piano. Math Explorers is offered as an alternative math class in different grades. FFAC is proud to be Chicago's only citywide magnet school for the arts, a designation we pride ourselves in and it drives us daily to be the very best.   In 2018, FFAC was designated a School of Distinction by the Magnet Schools of America Association and also had on staff, Region 6 Teacher of the Year in the visual arts.    Creativity and good citizenship are emphasized, as we all work towards achieving our motto everyday - to Fly High Flyers!!

Creative Programs: Art Studio, Choir/Chorus, Dance, Drama, Drawing, Improv, Mosaics, Murals, Painting, Piano/Keyboard, Plays/Acting, Rock Band, Student Art Club, Theater, Troupe Performances, Violin/Strings

Overview: Our Vision is to Be the Standard of Excellence! Our Mission is Value every Voice, remain Humanities focused, and Achieve Academic Excellence for All. As a CPS Magnet School our goals are to ensure students receive a high quality, enriched, theme-based curriculum to enable students to meet and exceed their academic potential.

Creative Programs: Art Studio, Choir/Chorus, Dance, Drama, Musicals, Photography, Piano/Keyboard, Student Art Club, Student Music Club, Talent Show, Weekend Enrichment

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Walt Disney Magnet School is committed to high academic standards and believes that learning is fun! As we prepare the “children of today for the world of tomorrow,” we strive to meet all the needs of our diverse student population through an Accelerated track, exceptional programming varied instructional methodology, data driven decision making, the infusion of 21st century skills, arts and technology. Teachers work together in an open spaced environment to create an exciting, integrated curriculum that supports both academic and social needs. Students are taught to be creative problem solvers, collaborative thinkers and caring individuals who will contribute to the community and the world at large. Disney students, families, and staff are learners who embrace equity, the arts, diversity, excellence, responsibility, and success. We are Disney L.E.A.D.E.R.S.

L: Learners

E: Equity

A: Arts

D: Diversity

E: Excellence

R: Responsibility

S: Success

Creative Programs: Art Studio, Band/Orchestra, Choir/Chorus, Dance, Drama, Drawing, Fundamentals/Theory of Music, Graphic Design, Guitar, Media and Production Workshops, Mixed Media, Origami, Painting, Percussion, Photography, Piano/Keyboard, Recorder, Talent Show, Tap/Ballet/Jazz Dance, Theater, Web Design

Overview: Disney II provides a rigorous and relevant curriculum in a nurturing and inclusive community. We focus on clear articulation and persistent pursuits of high expectations, the integration of arts and technology, the consideration and celebration of diversity, and the growth of a learning community wherein curiosity is kindled and knowledge is sought and valued.

Creative Programs: Ceramics, Choir/Chorus, Culinary Classes, Drama, Drawing, Knitting, Mosaics, Murals, Musicals, Painting, Percussion, Photography, Plays/Acting, Pottery, Recorder, Troupe Performances, Weekend Enrichment

Overview: Sor Juana Elementary School is a one-of-a-kind school community that strives to provide rigorous, engaging instruction that supports the unique talents, skills, and interests of each student. With both Classical and STEAM programs, we focus on teaching the whole child in an academically advanced environment and aim to create a community that promotes collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity while celebrating the diversity of the students, families, staff, and community.