Kestrel Heights Charter School is a small, diverse, and inclusive learning community in Durham that empowers our Scholars to sharpen academic knowledge, demonstrate creative expression, and expand leadership abilities to prepare for success in high school, college, and beyond. We teach our scholars, we work with them as they grow physically and emotionally, and we aspire to be positive role models for our students. The desired result of that work is scholars who are truly empowered to navigate this complicated world as they grow into adolescence, teenage years, and young adulthood. Scholar performance in literacy and numeracy are the ultimate benchmarks upon which our school is evaluated by local and state authorizers. At Kestrel Heights, however, we are more motivated by each scholar's educational growth than we are by the average test scores of all our scholars. Since all of our students arrive with skills to grow upon, we will empower our scholars to sharpen their academic knowledge. We believe that every child in the Kestrel Heights community has innate leadership ability. We have scholars who are more reserved and quietly lead by example. We have scholars who are more gregarious and inspire their peers with their charisma and enthusiasm. We have some scholars who lead by wisely choosing who to follow and when. Everyone has a role to play, and everyone has an opportunity to step up and be a leader in one way or another.
