Alphonse Gallegos Academy offers an academically serious, student-centered program from Preschool through 8th grade — combining strong core instruction, faith formation, arts-rich learning, and meaningful field experiences designed to help every child grow with confidence and purpose.
Our curriculum is designed to help students grow academically, morally, spiritually, and socially across every stage of their development. At AGA, learning is not confined to isolated subjects — students are asked to make connections, think critically, communicate clearly, and apply what they are learning in meaningful ways.
We emphasize strong instruction in literacy, mathematics, science, history and social science, religion, the arts, and technology, while also creating a school culture that values curiosity, discipline, service, and thoughtful citizenship.
Teachers work to create classrooms where foundational skills are taught well and where students are also challenged to ask questions, solve problems, and engage the world around them with confidence. Academic rigor and joyful learning are not opposites — at AGA, both belong together.
Each level is developmentally appropriate, academically purposeful, and rooted in a clear vision of how children grow over time. Select a grade band to see the curriculum frameworks and standards that guide instruction at each level.
Our preschool program nurtures the whole child through play-based, relationship-centered learning. Children develop language, early literacy, social-emotional skills, and a growing sense of wonder — all within a faith-based environment, woven into daily life.
Transitional Kindergarten bridges the gap between preschool and kindergarten, giving students an additional year to develop foundational skills, social readiness, and confidence before entering the primary grades.
The elementary years build strong literacy and numeracy foundations while expanding students' understanding of the world around them. Faith formation, arts, and cross-curricular thinking are integrated throughout.
Middle school at AGA is a time of intellectual deepening, leadership development, and growing independence. Students are challenged with more rigorous coursework while continuing to grow in faith, character, and readiness for high school and beyond.
Academic standards help ensure that instruction is clear, consistent, and appropriately challenging from one grade level to the next. At AGA, these standards guide curriculum planning, classroom instruction, assessment, and long-term student growth.
Our educators recognize that the concepts taught in one subject can and should be reinforced across the curriculum. Skills introduced in language arts may be deepened in social studies, math, science, religion, or the arts. By helping students see the relationship between subjects, we encourage stronger retention, deeper understanding, and more mature thinking.
Curriculum maps help teachers organize grade-level learning so that instruction is intentional, connected, and coherent across the year. They also help ensure that important concepts are revisited in ways that allow students to build mastery, make meaningful connections, and prepare for future academic work.
Students in Transitional Kindergarten through 8th grade engage in a wide range of activities aimed at mastering grade-level expectations while growing in independence, confidence, and readiness for the next stage of learning.
Curriculum maps ensure each subject reinforces and deepens learning in the others — creating coherent, connected understanding rather than isolated facts.
Students benefit when music, movement, visual arts, drama, and creative expression are woven into the life of the school and connected to classroom learning. Arts-rich instruction supports engagement, confidence, communication, collaboration, and deeper academic understanding.
Books and classrooms provide essential academic learning, but students also grow when they encounter the world directly. Our Road Scholars approach values field study as an extension of the classroom, giving students opportunities to observe, explore, question, and connect their learning to real places and real experiences.
Field trips contribute to many disciplines at once. A single experience can deepen science, history, the arts, writing, discussion, and critical thinking. By stepping into museums, performances, nature centers, farms, and community spaces, students learn that knowledge is connected and alive.
Specific destinations evolve from year to year, but the purpose remains the same — to help students become attentive, informed, and engaged learners who can connect classroom knowledge to the wider world.
The Learning Center exists to assist students in becoming successful in achieving their academic goals. Support is designed to be responsive and practical — not a last resort, but a normal and valued part of a healthy school community.
Staff work closely with students, parents and guardians, teachers, and school leadership to help identify needs, support growth, and keep each child moving toward success. We recognize that students have different strengths, learning profiles, and areas of need — and support is designed to meet each child where they are.
The Learning Center serves as a resource for intervention, collaboration, and encouragement, helping students receive the structure and guidance necessary to reach their full academic potential. It may also serve as a point of coordination for student support meetings, teacher collaboration, and family communication regarding interventions, accommodations, and progress.
Our goal is not simply to respond to difficulty, but to help each child grow with dignity, confidence, and the support needed to thrive.
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