Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary

An ABC School Since 1986

Arts Mission, Vision, & Goals


Arts Mission

To provide unique and authentic opportunities for student engagement and discovery through the arts. Through exploration, connection and self-expression, students gain critical and creative thinking skills that foster problem solving, creative risk taking, and a productive growth mindset.

Arts Vision

Through diverse and integrated inquiry and creative problem solving approaches to learning, students get to test their assumptions, explore their imaginations, design, create, and innovate. As positive contributing school community members, they gain a greater sense of self and an awareness of the dynamic and interdependent world we share in order to become more informed, articulate and expressive individuals.

Arts Goals
  • To maintain both a quality, challenging fine arts program through our fine arts classes and a school-wide arts integration curriculum that is aligned and sequential based on the 2017 South Carolina College and Career Ready Standards.
  • To educate our stakeholders in the true purpose of our school mission.
  • To continue community outreach through art displays and performances at Ashley River, local venues, and special events.

Points of Pride


  • ALL students, including those with exceptional needs, participate in two artist in residence experiences each year.
  • Our UniChorus performed at Carowinds in Spring 2023 and earned a Superior rating.
  • Arts Integration is is embedded into our Master Schedule to provide our arts specialists and general and special education teachers time to collaborate together to implement arts integration across the curriculum.
  • fall, winter, and spring collaborative showcases highlighting all arts-related clubs
  • 2024 Disney World Collaborative
  • All 4th and 5th grade standards participate in a self-selected arts-infused club opportunity during the school day.
  • All k-5 grade levels perform an original arts-integrated performance at monthly PTA
  • All SPED participate in an original school-wide production
  • Full-time Suzuki strings with spring recital
  • Dance Recital
  • All standards participate in 80 minutes of art, music, pe, 40 STEAM, drama, media


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Location

1871 Wallace School Road
Charleston, SC 29407
843-763-1555
https://ashleyriver.ccsdschools.com/
District: Charleston