Welcome to the Forest Heights Academy of Excellence, Where Excellence Today Brings Success Tomorrow! We are glad you have taken the time to learn about us. Please re-visit our site regularly, as we make frequent updates throughout the school year. Explore our site to read about our curriculum and arts programming, view teacher web pages, educational links, and fun student sites, as well as learn the latest PTA news, upcoming Sharing Session and production schedule, and seasonal program dates and show times.
Forest Heights Academy is a dedicated academic magnet program with integrated visual and performing arts instruction, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grades. Our program provides student-centered learning, allowing each student’s individual aesthetic, emotional, social, physical and intellectual needs to be met by our faculty. Our philosophy is to teach children creative approaches to problem solving through cross-curriculum academic and artistic training, giving them the ability to effectively manage and express themselves— both lifelong assets.
The extensive arts curriculum at Forest Heights Academy of Excellence is an integral part of the core curriculum with instruction based on National, State and Parish Curriculum Standards for the arts, including dance, vocal and instrumental music, theatre and visual art. Each art form, led by a state certified arts education expert, follows a separate integrated curriculum that reinforces students’ mathematical, science, language arts and social studies classroom instruction. By promoting creative thinking at Forest Heights, students develop unique ways of appreciating and influencing our local, national and global culture while becoming active participants in a successful future.
Forest Heights Academy is a dedicated academic magnet program with integrated visual and performing arts instruction, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grades. Our program provides student-centered learning, allowing each student’s individual aesthetic, emotional, social, physical and intellectual needs to be met by our faculty. Our philosophy is to teach children creative approaches to problem solving through cross-curriculum academic and artistic training, giving them the ability to effectively manage and express themselves— both lifelong assets.
The extensive arts curriculum at Forest Heights Academy of Excellence is an integral part of the core curriculum with instruction based on National, State and Parish Curriculum Standards for the arts, including dance, vocal and instrumental music, theatre and visual art. Each art form, led by a state certified arts education expert, follows a separate integrated curriculum that reinforces students’ mathematical, science, language arts and social studies classroom instruction. By promoting creative thinking at Forest Heights, students develop unique ways of appreciating and influencing our local, national and global culture while becoming active participants in a successful future.
