The mission of Community of Peace Academy is to be a racially and culturally diverse community of students, parents, and staff, dedicated to creating a peaceful environment in which each person is treated with unconditional positive regard and acceptance. Within such an environment, each student is empowered and inspired to reach his or her full academic, emotional, physical, and spiritual potential. Character development, based upon traditional concepts of respect, non-violence, honesty, integrity, selflessness, compassion, and self discipline, should be the joint goal of home and school. Education happens through relationships, and thrives within a caring, peaceful, and value rich community. The school offers a peace education curriculum including conflict prevention skills, conflict resolution strategies and ethics.
Peace education is taught daily.
Parents are expected to support the school by encouraging use of the PeaceBuilder principles at home. Children are also taught an ethics curriculum published by Heartwood. These principles are taught through the use of multicultural folk literature, legends, and hero tales. Within each domain, indicators of progress toward the outcomes of developing peace building skills between students and staff have also been identified. The school opened in the Fall or 1995.