What We Offer
Growth Public Schools offers a free, high-quality education to students in grades TK-8. We have been growing since 2017 with our founding students and families. In the Spring of 2025 we will graduate our first class of 8th grade students!
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Our TK and Kindergarten students attend a full school day, no am/pm programs here! We believe it is crucial for students to continue their education with GPS through 8th grade. The middle school years are an important time developmentally when pre-teens need supportive relationships and a safe community.
Project Based Learning
Why Project Based Learning? We believe that when students leave GPS they should know how to learn and how they learn best. When students know how to learn they can learn anything! This belief has guided our curriculum design and selection. PBL models real-world processes such as goal-setting, planning, collaboration and trial & error. PBL focuses on skill building, rather than memorization and test taking, to equip students with tools to be successful in life.
English Language Arts Curriculum
EL Education
EL (Expeditionary Learning) Education uses high quality texts to connect to student learning while also working towards a final project. We selected EL Education because it supports the development of foundational skills that attend to students’ literacy growth. Learn more about EL Education.
Math Curriculum
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics is an innovative problem-based K-12 curriculum designed to energize math classrooms and equip students with critical skills, understandings, and practices that can benefit them for a lifetime.
Social-Emotional Learning
GPS is proud to be a certified Powered by Compass school in partnership with Valor Collegiate Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. We are the first and only school in the Sacramento area to undergo the two-year accreditation and implementation process to achieve this certification.
Valor's Compass Model is the foundation for our Social Emotional Learning. Through Valor’s Compass Model, all members of our community (yes, adults too!) work to develop their own Inner Compass, which we hope will be a reliable source of guidance throughout their lives.
The Valor Compass model is grounded in the foundational elements of being a human: mind, body, heart and spirit. “Working the Compass” means that we are intentionally developing key disciplines, habits and mindsets that support excellence in mind, body, heart and spirit. The model is comprised of four key components: Compass Commitments, Compass Disciplines, Compass Core Habits and Compass-Aligned Badge-work.
Our students meet for a weekly Circle with a group of fellow classmates, guided by their teacher or other GPS staff. Circle is a place where students connect with each other, ask for support, show appreciation and develop their emotional vocabulary.
Watch the video to learn more about how our students and staff have been impacted by Circle.
Specials & Explorations
All of our students participate in PE and Music classes with our amazing team of Specials teachers—teachers who specialize in curriculum beyond math, reading and science. Students attend either PE or Music each school day and students in 6th-8th grade have additional elective options to choose from each semester such as Dance, Band, Guitar, Art, Creative Writing and more!
Explorations are immersive experiences that allow students to take a break from their core classes and take part in enrichment opportunities provided by values-aligned community partners. Explorations offerings evolve each year based on student interest. Opportunities have ranged from Lego engineering to steel drums and Hip Hop dance. Below is a list of some of our community partners.
Yoga with Rose White
Verge Center for the Arts
Camp Edmo
Studio T Arts & Entertainment
Dance Daze, Inc.
Before & After Care
GPS is proud to partner with EDMO to provide care starting at 6:30am before school and closing at 6pm each school day.
EDMO is an award-winning non-profit organization that designs school programs and summer camps that foster curiosity, courage and kindness. Every day students will experience fun, hands-on science, art, tech and maker activities in addition to outside play and homework help.
EDMO is a Child Action Approved Provider, which means that families who qualify can have the cost of child care covered by Child Action. See if you qualify here.
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