The school serves grades K-8th.  Additionally, a private Montessori preschool on site serves as a feeder program to the charter school.  Our curriculum focuses on the Four Blocks approach to literacy, also using this same multi-style learning approach in Houghton Mifflin math.  History/social studies and technology are taught across the curriculum.

Extra (non-academic) programs include: Physical Education, Chorus, Art, Far Out Foods Venture and Garden-Based Learning.   Please select the link above to receive more in-depth information on individual programs.  If the link above is not active it is because we are in the process of developing a page to provide more in-depth information. 

General information regarding the  programs we are still creating pages for is provided below.

In January 2003, our “Garden-Based Learning” Program was implemented in our classrooms.  This gardening program is one aspect of the much larger Far Out Foods Venture, "serving westernmost North Carolina and beyond.” The Far Out Foods Venture project is underway with the help of connections made possible through the Oprah Big Dream Contest.  In 2004 we added  “Small Bites” nutrition education.

Art is currently offered once a week.  Chorus is offered four days a week. 

The school holds an annual art show and numerous choral performances.

Yet one more extra is our Mini and Middle REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning) program. 

Many other extras are included in our setting: students involved in community league sports, host to the annual community-wide Monster Mash Bash Halloween Carnival for preschool thru 8th grades, annual entry in the Murphy Christmas Parade, and, at Valentines Day, the Sweetheart Ball. 

In the diverse setting of our school you will often find students mentoring other students or a parent volunteer actively assisting in the classroom or with some project outside the classroom.  We work toward creating a sense of community and instilling in our students a sense of responsibility to that community.