Why pick Concordia for your child?
Our Mission
The mission of Concordia Charter School (CCS) is to provide families with a choice for high quality educational opportunities for their children in a caring, nurturing environment.
We are committed to addressing the learning strengths and needs of each child by offering:
- Small class sizes of no more than 18 students per grade
- Daily individualized academic interventions through engaging teaching and assessment tools
- Caring, dedicated, and highly qualified teachers, administration & support staff
- A small, safe school setting
- Culturally rich Core Knowledge® curriculum and a classical approach to learning
- Free school breakfast and lunch for every enrolled student
- Engaging Family Nights (held throughout the school year) and parent outreach activities
- Wellness and Farm-to-School/Garden programs
- A modified year-round calendar, which provides shorter summer breaks and longer Fall and Spring breaks
Our Motto
Providing educational excellence and equity to the most vulnerable children in Arizona.
Our Mission – In order to carry out its mission Concordia Charter School will:
- Develop and operate a K-6 charter school program in Mesa, Arizona.
- Educate children, regardless of ethnic, cultural, or social-economic class, to become fully literate, productive
citizens of our society. - Offer children opportunities to excel beyond the guidelines outlined in the Arizona State Educational Standards.
- Create and nurture meaningful relationships with parents so they can be partners in their child’s education.
- Create and promote a safe, harmonious, disciplined, and
tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-free environment. - Adhere to all Arizona State requirements including mandated testing (e.g. AzMERIT) and a 45-day screening for all incoming students. The 45-day screening provides information that may indicate a student’s need for further testing by our Special Education Department. All referrals are kept confidential and parents are notified.
- Recognize and encourage parent involvement and
participation. - Require mastery in all core academic subjects required by
the Arizona Department of Education. Concordia sets mastery level at 80% for a passing (“C”) grade. - Stress the importance of character development in students
to successfully participate in school. - Collaborate as staff, teachers, volunteers, and community
leaders to utilize the talents and creativity of all persons.
Our Vision
In order to carry out its mission Concordia Charter School will:
- Develop and operate a K-6 charter school program in Mesa, Arizona.
- Educate children, regardless of ethnic, cultural, or social-economic class, to become fully literate, productive citizens of our society.
- Offer children opportunities to excel beyond the guidelines outlined in the Arizona State Educational Standards.
- Create and nurture meaningful relationships with parents so they can be partners in their child’s education.
- Create and promote a safe, harmonious, disciplined, and tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-free environment.
- Adhere to all Arizona State requirements including mandated testing (e.g. AzMERIT) and a 45-day screening for all incoming students. The 45-day screening provides information that may
indicate a student’s need for further testing by our Special Education Department. All referrals are kept confidential and parents are notified. - Recognize and encourage parent involvement and participation.
- Require mastery in all core academic subjects required by the Arizona Department of Education. Concordia sets mastery level at 80% for a passing (“C”) grade.
- Stress the importance of character development in students to successfully participate in school.
- Collaborate as staff, teachers, volunteers, and community leaders to utilize the talents and creativity of all persons.
Our Values
The statement of Values of Concordia Charter School, Inc. serves as an internal compass to guide our relationships and actions:
- Equality – We affirm the worth and spiritual freedom of each person and treat all people with respect, integrity and dignity.
- Compassion – We embrace the whole person and respond to emotional, ethical and spiritual concerns, as well as educational needs in our commitment to unselfishly care for others.
- Excellence – We empower people to continually improve the outcomes of our service, to advance quality and to increase innovation and openness to new ideas.
- Partnership – We collaborate as staff, teachers, volunteers and community leaders to utilize the talents and creativity of all persons.
- Stewardship – We are responsible and accountable for all we are, have and do.
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Financial and Academic Framework
https://asbcs.az.gov/academic-performance/financial-performance
https://asbcs.az.gov/performance-frameworks
Teacher Salaries
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Average teacher salary (A.R.S. §15-189.05)
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| 1. Average salary of all teachers employed in budget year 2024 | $ | 46,642 | ||||||
| 2. Average salary of all teachers employed in prior year 2023 | $ | 51,119 | ||||||
| 3. Increase in average teacher salary from the prior year 2023 | $ | -4,477 | ||||||
| 4. Percentage increase | -8.8% | |||||||
| Does not include Classroom Site Fund Merit Pay or Stipend monies. The reduction is due to a higher paid teacher leaving and being replaced by a lower level teacher. Along with a 1.0 FTE moving to .50 FTE. and one less teaching position. | ||||||||