Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy is a magnet school designed to prepare students in grades K-12 for creative and artistic careers while also providing a rigorous college-prep education. All students explore theatre arts, 2- and 3-D visual arts, media arts, instrumental and vocal music and dance. Students entering at middle school select arts studies they are passionate about and will lead to career-path studies in high school. We enroll 75% of our students from the Southwest Denver region, and 25% from other DPS regions and other school districts.
Our Mission
To prepare students to engage in the 21st-century global community through arts infusion.
Core Values
Our school promotes an environment for creative risk-taking, where the arts are infused across multiple disciplines and grade levels.
Our school builds lifelong learners and reaches beyond the school walls into the community.
We respect and celebrate the vertical collaboration of a 6-12 community.
We are building core knowledge through arts, and arts knowledge through core.
We teach to the strength of the student and not to the test (strong test scores are a by-product of our commitment to multiple intelligences).
We work with parents and guardians to connect school and home.
Outside educators and working professionals create an authentic audience, experience, and a global vision of learning.
Our Vision
We are a dynamic model of successful arts infusion, developing creative, curious and courageous learners.
Vivid Description
KCAA prepares students to be positive members of the community.
Students create personal visions for their future.
Students actively seek ways to present their learning with pride.
Staff balances arts and core academics and students work at high levels in all areas.
The community values art and recognizes our students for academic and artistic excellence and service.
