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Mission
The mission of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy is to educate students in a college preparatory program to be literate, critical thinkers, and independent problem solvers who are agents of social justice with sensitivity toward the world around them.
Core Values
Scholarship- We seek knowledge through experiential learning for continuous social, emotional and cognitive growth.
Respect - We treat everyone humanely and refrain from making assumptions or judgments about people who think and behave differently from us.
Access - We create pathways for each individual to effect change for self and community.
Justice - We promote equity, access and the expansion of networks for individual and organizational advancement.
Community - We leverage our strengths to maximize individual and collective impact.
History
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy was founded in August 2000 by Pueblo Nuevo Development, a nonprofit community development corporation in the MacArthur Park neighborhood west of downtown Los Angeles. The MacArthur Park neighborhood is one of the poorest and most densely populated neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Most of the residents are immigrants from Mexico and Central America. In 1992, Philip Lance began working with residents of the community to find ways to address the severe economic and social problems in the area. Over the past 10 years, several organizations and businesses grew out of this effort, including a thrift store, a worker-owned janitorial company, a non-profit community development corporation, a charter school, free clinic and a pre-school. Together, these organizations are providing children with outstanding and enriched educational opportunities as well as revitalizing this urban neighborhood and making it a safe and healthy place to live.
CNCA Milestones
In just a decade, the Camino Nuevo community has celebrated a number of important milestones. Click here for a short video presentation.
1998: Philip Lance, Pueblo Nuevo Development founder, begins work with local residents to address the needs of the community, including schools
2000: Camino Nuevos opens first K-5 campuses at Burlington and Townhouse sites
2001: Camino Nuevo opens middle school campuses at Harvard site and Burlington making Burlington a K-8 site
2003: Camino Nuevo celebrates its first 8th grade graduation
2003: Camino Nuevo Family Clinic and Parent Center open at Burlington
2004: Camino Nuevo High School opens its doors with 9th graders at temporary site
2004: The Early Childhood Education Center is opened
2004: Townhouse and Harvard merge into a K-8 program at Harvard site
2006: Camino Nuevo High School moves to permanent site
2008: More than 1500 students enrolled
2008: Camino Nuevo High School celebrates its first high school graduating class
2008: New state-of-the art dance studio opens within CNCA’s Early Childhood Education Center, in partnership with the Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation
Coming soon: Soccer field and basketball court currently under construction across from Camino Nuevo High School. The field will service CNCA students and community leagues after hours.
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