Grade Band: (K-5)
Program Offering: Gifted and Talented & Fine Arts Pathways

This choice program provides opportunities in art- and humanities-focused elementary environments in which students will study and engage in the visual and performing arts such as foundational drawing, painting, sculpture, dance, music, and theatre alongside English/language arts, history, and cultural studies.

Why Woodridge Fine Arts and Gifted Academy?

Scholars who are exposed to Arts Education tend to:
- Be more deeply invested in their core curricular learning.
- Develop more complex critical and creative thinking skills.
- Outperform their peers academically.

The WRFA&GA will employ a school within-a-school model to:
- Create a focused learning environment where arts are center stage and embedded in the instructional day.
- Develop an environment that supports creativity, innovation, and arts exploration.
- Afford scholars a safe space in which they dare to dream and are encouraged to dream big.

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