About Our School

Welcome to Pride Prep Middle School!

We are a free public charter school in Spokane, WA, serving students in grades 6-8.

A core part of the PRIDE experience is allowing students to be confronted with real-world problems, hands-on learning, and performance assessments. Our projects offer many entry points for students with varying learning styles and interests, integrate several subjects together at once, are teacher designed, and provide students with an excellent chance to demonstrate critical thinking, artistry, and a deeper understanding of key concepts. Many projects result in a public presentation by the student(s)

Mission, Vision, Values…

The mission of PRIDE Schools is to honor the diversity and capacity of people through innovative education design. Our students are inspired to create, innovate, and challenge the status quo in a world that demands better designed systems, new solutions, and increased communication.

To accomplish this mission, we have designed our program for deeper learning, challenging students to develop and use their knowledge and skills in a way that prepares them for real life. In other words, we blend formal and informal learning together, engaging both the mind and the hand.

  • Culture

    At PRIDE, we honor the diversity of our staff and students. We know that no two people are exactly alike, and that we go through this life as unique individuals,

    So it is no surprise that the PRIDE community welcomes and respects -- indeed, celebrates the uniqueness of each. And we live that ethos every day.

    Students and adults alike model a supportive, collaborative, and respectful stance toward each other, as we all seek to unlock the passions, purpose, and potential of each individual.

    Because we all learn through trial and error, we are careful not to stigmatize mistakes, but push students to "fail forward" or rapidly learn from error and improve. We believe that students should be challenged to produce work that has lasting beauty, purpose, and value.

  • Our PRIDE Values

    We are a values based school. We believe that a strong school culture exists when we share a set of common values and are clear about what it looks like and sounds like to have such values. When we operate with a common set of values- we can become a community. These become the operating norms of the school and replace "rules" that often are common in our traditional school.

    We believe that all of us (students-staff-families) should strive to embody the IB Learner Profile Traits both inside and outside of school. This means we are all Inquirers and curious about our ever-changing environments, we strive to be Knowledgeable and creative Thinkers to help solve local/relevant issues, we are clear Communicators, Principled in our actions, Open-Minded about other cultures and perspectives, Caring and supportive towards each other, Risk-Takers willing to try new things independently and collaboratively, Balanced between academic and emotional development, and we are Reflective about the way our ideas and actions impact the world around us.

 

We are PRIDE.
We are proud.

Our People

PRIDE Prep employs passionate, highly qualified educators who are themselves master learners.

Our staff care deeply about our students -- their growth, success, and well-being. Our teachers are designers of our students’ experience, and thrive in a highly collegial, collaborative environment.

Meet our staff ›

Our Approach

Students engage in deeper learning in three important ways: challenging and personalized curriculum guided by International Baccalaureate standards, self-paced learning utilizing state-of-the-art online resources; and hands-on project, and inquiry-based pedagogy presented during project time.

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General Info

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