Page Academy

A private TK-8th
arts-integrated school.

At Page, the arts are how the academics are taught. Students perform what they study, build what they study, and bring finished work to a real audience.

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A short film: a single unit moving from research to performance, taught the way Page teaches it.
Watch the Method
Walk through a Page classroom on any afternoon and you will find students sketching, building, drafting, rehearsing, presenting. The school is busy producing real work, every grade, every day.
Page Academy Since 1908
The Method

Children learn deepest when they make the work themselves.

At most schools, project-based learning means students study a topic and then make a poster about it. At Page, every academic project produces creative work. Research becomes performance. Science becomes sculpture. History becomes oral storytelling.

The arts are not enrichment around the academics; they are how the academics are taught, transitional kindergarten through eighth grade.

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Page Classroom Year-Round Method
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The Translation

Every academic project produces creative work.

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By eighth grade, a Page student has turned research into performance, science into sculpture, and history into oral storytelling, prototyped inventions for real judges, and performed original work in front of public audiences every year since kindergarten. That's what nine years of arts-integrated learning produces.
Page Academy Founded 1908
Heritage

One hundred and eighteen years of making the work.

Page Academy was founded in 1908 and has spent the century since refining what it means to teach children through the work itself.

1908
The Founding

A school built around making things.

Page opens in Southern California with the radical premise that children learn most deeply when they produce real work, not when they recite.

1960s
The Expansion

Field experience as core method.

Page formalizes what has always been informal practice: classroom learning is grounded in direct experience of the world.

2020s
The Present

Arts integration as methodology.

The arts are not enrichment; they are how the academics are taught. Two campuses serve Costa Mesa and Los Angeles families.

Two Campuses

One method. Two campuses.

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Tour the campus. Sit in on a classroom. Watch a research-into-performance unit in motion.

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Newport Mesa Los Angeles