A private TK-8 arts-integrated school in Costa Mesa, California, serving Orange County families since 1908.
The Newport Mesa campus has operated continuously in Costa Mesa for more than a century, serving families across Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Irvine, and the broader Orange County region.
Newport Mesa is a full TK-8 arts-integrated school with an attached early childhood program serving infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and junior kindergarteners on the same site. A child can begin at Page in infancy and graduate from the same campus at the end of eighth grade.
Seven and a half acres in central Costa Mesa, with three buildings and dedicated space for the things a Page student does in a school day: swim, build, plant, perform.
The Newport Mesa campus sits on 7.5 acres in central Costa Mesa, with three buildings and 1.5 acres of dedicated outdoor play. Spanish-style architecture across the grounds, with wrought iron gates, brick pavers, and tile roofing that nod to California's mission heritage. Solar powered, minutes from the 55 and the 405.
Newport Mesa runs a year-round aquatics program with professional swim instruction across all grades. Water safety and swim fundamentals are part of the curriculum, not an after-school add-on.
Hands-on science, engineering, robotics, and one-to-one technology access for every student. SMARTBoards in every classroom, 3D printers, design software, coding and robotics across grade levels.
Students plant, grow, and harvest from a campus garden that connects curriculum to real food production. Farm-to-table learning runs from early childhood through eighth grade.
Small classes are the methodology, not a perk. Every student is known.
Page graduates place into top-choice high schools at the rate the school targets.
Three buildings, 1.5 acres of outdoor play, on a single campus.
Founded 1908. Family-run across four generations of the Gibbs family.
A child can start at Page in infancy and graduate from the same campus at eighth grade. The school's arts-integrated method runs through every grade level, taught by faculty who know each student by name.
Nurturing care for the youngest students, ZooPhonics-based literacy, and the early academic foundations that lead into kindergarten.
See the programMastery academics in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and Spanish, taught through arts integration and signature project-based programs.
See the programHigh school ready academics, leadership and service, and the eighth-grade capstone project presented to a real audience before graduation.
See the programPage Academy teaches its core academic subjects through arts integration, the methodology the school has used since the mid-1960s. Research becomes performance. Science becomes sculpture. History becomes oral storytelling. Students don't just study a thing, they produce something that demonstrates they understood it.
Every Page student moves through the same nine-year arc, with the method adapted to age, then handed back to the student to lead by middle school. The Creators Program runs alongside the academics as a dedicated arts curriculum across four creative disciplines.
A few of the programs that show how the arts-integrated method works in practice on the Newport Mesa campus, from elementary through eighth grade.
Every Page student participates in the annual musical production, on stage, backstage, or behind the scenes. No auditions. No one gets cut. Real parts for everyone, in costume, in front of a public audience.
Page's interdisciplinary research program, scaffolded by grade band: K-2 building communities, 3-5 cultural connections, 6-8 historical analysis. Students compile original research and present findings to a live audience.
Students identify real-world problems, develop inventions, build working prototypes, and present them to authentic audiences. Design thinking, engineering, and entrepreneurship taught through actual production.
The most accurate way to understand whether Page is the right fit for your child is to walk the campus and watch a unit move through a real class. Tours are scheduled directly with the Newport Mesa admissions team.
Costa Mesa tours typically include a walk through TK through eighth grade classrooms, a stop in the Creators Program studios, and time to talk through your family's situation with admissions.
The fastest way to understand the Page method is to watch a unit run. Tours are scheduled by appointment year-round, with priority slots filling early in the spring for the following school year.