Mission

We believe all children can learn and that experiences in the arts inspire a love of life-long learning. Cantara Street Visual and Performing Arts Magnet will provide a safe and healthy environment where all students have opportunities and support needed to achieve academic success and creative expression in various forms. Students from diverse cultural, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds will come together for an engaging, challenging, and exciting standards-based curricular and extracurricular program with the arts at its core. Cantara VAPA Magnet fosters confident, curious, and compassionate communicators, who collaborate with others to utilize critical thinking skills to creatively solve problems.