Where students Grow as learners, leaders, and creators
A relationship-centered microschool for grades 3-8 that strengthens academics, builds emotional intelligence, and nurtures creative expression-so students feel seen, supported, and challenged.
Your child may thrive at MASA if they...
Learn best when they feel connected, supported, and inspired.
Benefit from personalized learning and meaningful relationships.
Are naturally curious, creative, and eager to explore new ideas.
Are developing confidence and independence as learners and leaders.
Enjoy authentic Learning Experiences that connect learning to the real world.
Deserve an educational community that nurtures the whole child—not just academic achievement.
This is more than a school.
MASA is a learning community.
For families who believe every child deserves to be known, every voice deserves to be heard, and learning should inspire curiosity, creativity, leadership, and meaningful growth.
Social Emotional Learning
SEL is integrated into every learning experience, helping students grow as confident, self-aware, empathetic, and resilient leaders.
Our Mission
The mission of MASA is to educate, uplift, and inspire the whole child by cultivating academic growth, emotional intelligence, and creative expression through meaningful, student-centered learning experiences.
Personalized Learning
Learning experiences are designed to meet each learner where they are, fostering growth, confidence, and achievement.
Creative Expression
The arts enrich learning by fostering creativity, deepening understanding, and providing meaningful opportunities for self-expression.
Leadership Development
Leadership is cultivated through meaningful opportunities for learners to lead, collaborate, and make a positive impact.
Strong Relationships
Relationships are at the heart of every learning experience, creating a community where learners feel seen, valued, supported, and empowered to thrive.
The MASA Difference
Learn more about the vision and learning model behind Maya Angelou School of the Arts.
Our Vision
To cultivate a thriving community of creative, confident, and compassionate learners who are empowered to lead, innovate, and make a meaningful impact in their communities and beyond.
A Message from Our Founder
After more than 25 years in education, I've learned one truth that has shaped everything I believe:
Students don't fail because they can't learn. Too often, they struggle because the learning environment fails to recognize who they are and how they learn best.
Throughout my career, I watched bright, capable, and creative students become disengaged—not because they lacked potential, but because traditional systems often leave little room for curiosity, individuality, meaningful relationships, or authentic learning.
I realized that lasting change wouldn't come from trying to fix every broken system.
It would come from building something different.
Maya Angelou School of the Arts was created as a relationship-centered learning community where students are known, supported, challenged, and inspired to grow academically, creatively, socially, and emotionally.
Here, learning extends beyond assignments and assessments. Through authentic Learning Experiences, students ask meaningful questions, solve real-world problems, collaborate with others, express themselves creatively, and develop the confidence to lead with purpose.
Our goal is not simply to help students achieve academically. It is to nurture creative thinkers, effective communicators, critical problem solvers, self-directed learners, and collaborative community members who are prepared to make a meaningful impact in the world.
MASA is more than a school. It is a commitment to reimagining what learning can be when relationships come first and every child is empowered to learn, create, and lead.
— Dr. Yolanda Peay
