The Civic School

Every Classroom · Every Routine · Every Day

Portrait of a Graduate

The Four Pillars of a Good Citizen

Curiosity, contribution, creativity, and community as we see the daily practice of asking, participating, making, and belonging.

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The Thinker

Curiosity · Asking

Your child learns to think for themselves — to wonder, ask real questions, and stay with a problem until it gives.

02

The Maker

Creativity · Making

Your child learns to make things with judgment and pride — to author the world, not just consume it.

03

The Giver

Community · Belonging

Your child is known here — and learns to give of their time and themselves to make sure others are too. Belonging is something you build.

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The Doer

Contribution · Participating

Your child learns to show up and take part — to raise their hand, join the work, and act on what they care about.

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AI in Education, Considered Thoughtfully

In the era of AI we are focusing on Human Intelligence.

Children today are growing up alongside intelligent machines. Our answer is not more technology, sooner. It is a school that works from how children’s brains actually develop, where kids understand every tool they are introduced to.

Attention & cognition

Deep, unhurried attention comes first. Children practice staying with a question and build the thinking no machine can do for them.

Executive function

Planning, deciding, following through. Children learn to complete their own work before any tool offers to do it for them.

Knowing who they are

Children come to wonder about the world, what they can do, and who they can be, so technology meets a confident, formed thinker.

Our approach to AI, explicitly → How we know it’s working →

The Day-To-Day

Life at The Civic School.

A Day in the Life

Mornings Core Academics +

Mornings are devoted to literacy, numeracy, and logic taught with care and depth. This is where children build the foundations that make everything else possible: reading well, considering problems thoughtfully, and growing a rich understanding of the world.

Afternoons The Studios +

Afternoons belong to The Studios, our sustained blocks of time centered on human skills. Building an appreciation for civic contribution, identifying how they will be responsible community participants, and what about these things they like to do. Doing work they can name and always own. Building their skills for life.

Always Rituals & Traditions +

Daily life at TCS runs on rituals - daily morning meeting and closing circle, weekly all-school town hall, field trips, and exhibition nights. Regular work of asking, participating, making, and belonging are woven through the day so students who come to TCS always belong.

The Civic School campus building at 2131 E Lincoln Drive, Phoenix, at dusk with the mountains behind

2131 E Lincoln DrivePhoenix, Arizona · at the foot of Piestewa Peak

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The Essentials

Lower School Who we serve +

Grades 1–5 to begin. A close-knit inaugural student body, growing with our founding families year over year with plans to expand through High School.

Opening When we begin +

Fall 2027. Founding-family tours and enrollment events begin well before opening day! Join the waitlist to be invited first.

Tuition What it costs +

$14,000 per year. ClassWallet specialists are available to help every founding family with tuition planning and payment.

Coming Fall 2027

Be one of our founding families.

We’re welcoming a small opening class. Tell us a little about your family and we’ll keep you close as plans take shape, you’ll be first to hear about tours, enrollment, and campus milestones.

Join the founding-family waitlist

Or just say hello: danielle@thecivicschool.org

Dr. Danielle Bryant, in doctoral regalia on graduation day

From Our Founder

Built by someone from this community.

Dr. Danielle Bryant grew up in the Central Phoenix neighborhoods The Civic School will serve and has spent her career in education. Her doctoral research asked how schools can be of service to our civil society - this school is her answer.

Read her letter to families →