Welcome to Coit Creative Arts Academy (PK-5)

We invite you to come explore, learn, and create with us! Our inquiry-based curriculum integrates creative expression, visual arts, music, dance, and movement with academic excellence. 

If you would like more information regarding Coit Creative Arts Academy and the positive impact we can have on your child's education, please call us at 616-819-2390.  

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Coit Creative Arts Academy

617 Coit Ave. NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone: 616-819-2390
Molly Ali
Interim Principal
Crystal Hill
DHHS Coordinator
Cindy Redding
KSSN Coordinator
Cara Sauber
Head Secretary

School Hours

Breakfast 8:50 a.m.
Start Time 9:10 a.m.
Dismissal 4:08 p.m.
Half Day Dismissal 12:20 p.m. 

KSSN

We are a Community School!
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Creative. Original. Imaginative. Thinkers. We are Coit.

Coit Creative Arts Academy offers an inquiry-based curriculum that integrates creative expression, visual arts, music, dance, and movement with academic excellence.

We are proud to be an authorized International Baccalaureate World School offering the Primary Years Programme (PYP). With a commitment to high-quality, challenging, and inquiry-based education, we continue to promote conceptual understanding and critical thinking as our learners build new knowledge and skills. Our PYP teachers work collaboratively across grade levels and content areas, as well as in partnership with a wide range of arts and university partners, to help our scholars make meaning of the world around them.

With a strong emphasis on social emotional learning via the Learner Profile, our scholars develop agency through voice, choice, and ownership. They confidently communicate using written and spoken word, song, visual arts, and movement. Valuing all voices and experiences, we prepare our scholars to be leaders and global citizens.

Primary Years Programme

We have incorporated distance learning for years and are poised to be a leader in the district as a blended model of new technologies and old practices, giving our students the best of both worlds. Our 1-to-1 student technology device approach ensures that every student has the opportunity to learn inside and outside the classroom.

Coit Creative Arts Academy is the elementary ARTS school for the Grand Rapids Public Schools located in the Belknap neighborhood on the Northeast side of the city. The original building was built in 1880 and it is the oldest working school in Michigan. In 2002, the building was renovated into an arts school. We have a full art, music and dance studio and a full stage in the gym. Our scholars have created a pollinator garden outside and enjoy two playgrounds, one dedicated to Pre-K and the other shared by all scholars.

Coit Creative Arts Academy Photo Tour


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