About Us

At Ballington Academy for the Arts & Sciences Charter School, we are dedicated to fostering an environment of academic excellence, creativity, and personal growth for all students. We work towards cultivating a love for learning while developing well-rounded individuals who are prepared to excel in a rapidly changing world. With a team of passionate educators, we offer a diverse curriculum designed to challenge students, ignite their curiosity, and build their critical thinking skills. We emphasize values such as respect, integrity, and collaboration, ensuring that our students grow not just academically but also socially and emotionally. Our classrooms are inclusive spaces where every learner is supported and encouraged to reach their full potential.
 
Ballington Academy for the Arts & Sciences Charter School shares the legacy of progressivism and social change through innovation and educational betterment.
 
  • We teach the common core, and as a professional community work towards grade level mastery of these standards, however, our approach to education is different. 
  • Ballington Academy is student centered.
  • We strive to engage our students' minds, hearts and bodies.  (The thinking child, the feeling child and the doing child.)
  • Ballington Academy seeks to equip students with the 21st century skills through collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking.
  • We do this through project-based lessons, integrating the arts and providing specialty classes in engineering, visual arts, industrial arts.
  • We also have two strong afterschool programs providing socialization time, targeted tutoring and instruction and available arts specialty programs (robotics, iMovie, guitar, etc.)