KID smART Schools

KID smART Schools are places where the creative energies of children and teachers interact to unleash exciting potential for learning. Leaders and teachers at KID smART Schools commit to change their pedagogy by integrating the arts in teaching across the curriculum. Schools participate in both the Artist in Classroom and AXIS (Arts Experiences in Schools) programs.

The challenges to public education in the metro-New Orleans area since Katrina are daunting. In 2009, 36 different entities operated 86 Orleans Parish public schools. Information from the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center indicates that 87.75% of students at KID smART schools are poor and at-risk, compared to 41% nationally.

KID smART schools are committed to using the transformative power of the arts, which can “level the learning field” across social and economic boundaries, to increase their capacity to face and meet the current education challenges in our communities.

In the 2009-10 academic year, KID smART expanded our work for the first time into Jefferson Parish, providing professional development and teaching artists in Lincoln and Clancy Elementary Schools for the Arts to help these school communities transform education through arts integration.

2009-10 Confirmed KID smART Schools

Arise Academy
Andrew Wilson Charter School
Clancy Elementary School for the Arts
International School of Louisiana
John Dibert Community School
Langston Hughes Charter Academy
Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts
Martin Behrman Elementary
Mary Bethune Elementary
McDonogh City Park Academy
New Orleans College Prep

Click here for a map of our schools.