A+ Children’s Academy: A STEAM Education Center

At A+ STEAM Academy, our children are engaged in hands-on learning opportunities. Our STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) Lab provides for a deeper level of exploration. Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math are where the most promising jobs of tomorrow lie. Our unique approach uses higher order levels of thinking to build life long career skills. A+ STEAM Academy exposes children as young as 2.5 years to a platform that will help solve the world's most pressing problems. We strive to inspire the next generation of innovators.

Website: A+ Children's Academy

Phone: (309) 412-6083

Appletree Academy

AppleTree Academy uses the Preschool Observation Checklist and Evaluation Tool (Creative Curriculum) to appraise children’s cognitive, social, and physical developmental progress. Creative Curriculum is an organizational and assessment tool that complements and enhances our child-centered, play-based curricula. The Creative Curriculum system involves six easy steps to monitor, evaluate, and document each child’s growth and progress. The result is an individualized portfolio for your child used to determine appropriate instructional material and practices, according to their individual stage of development.

Website: Appletree Academy

Phone: (309) 243-5700

Cadence Academy Pre-School

The directors, teachers, and staff at Cadence Academy Preschool, Big Hollow are committed to making the most of your child’s first educational experiences. If you’re currently searching for a daycare provider that will help your little one reach important developmental milestones or a preschool program that will prepare your child for success in kindergarten, you’ve come to the right place! Our childcare center has a welcoming homelike environment where children learn through fun and engaging educational activities that are proven to prepare them for kindergarten.

Website: Cadence Academy

Phone: (309) 271-7246

Little Friends Early Education & Pre-School

Our own World at Their Fingertips® curriculum is based on the research of the most renowned education experts. Designed by our education team, it’s created to support these important early years, to inspire children to be bold explorers today and joyful, confident learners for life. Our curriculum is rooted in the science of learning. Through play, experimenting with possibilities, problem solving, and project work, we provide children with the very best early education experiences possible.

Website: Little Friends Early Education & Pre-School

Enrollment Info: 877-624-4532

Phone: (309) 681-5265

Montessori Academy of Peoria

​The Montessori Academy of Peoria is committed to excellence in our children through focus on the fundamentals of learning. We are committed to creating a challenging environment that generates intrigue, instills, curiosity and fires the excitement of success attained by discovering both how to learn and how to achieve. We have modeled our program on the ground-breaking work of Dr. Maria Montessori and the standards established by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), which she founded.

Website: Montessori Academy of Peoria

Phone: (309) 453-6003

PALS - Praise & Leadership Schools

PALS Praise & Leadership Schools are more than your typical daycare, preschool or childcare center. We have spent decades developing a proven childcare experience that engages your child through creative play and learning, all to help him or her develop into a happy, successful adult. Everything we do at PALS is designed to instill confidence and let children discover and expand their talents. We also help develop the social-emotional aspect of each child through the use of conscious discipline.

Website: PALS Schools

Downtown Phone: (309) 740-4463

North Peoria Phone: (309) 228-2505

1,2,3 You ‘N Me

Children learn through hands-on, sensory experiences and a great Child Care facility understands this. They look at the world as a place filled with wondrous new things to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. In the class room, children have various hands-on learning opportunities to experience these senses. Essential to learning, particularly to the development of those special intellectual qualities of originality and creativity; is self-esteem. A child must be confident, and with that ability he or she becomes more independent. A never-ending search for the most ideal environment for your children exists as our highest priority, and those qualities are being achieved at our center. We uniquely provide both outdoor and indoor playing and learning areas.

Website: 1,2,3 You 'n Me

Phone: (309) 692-3470

Elementary Schools

Charter Oak Primary School

Through collaborative efficacy, Charter Oak is committed to educating all students in a supportive, safe, & rigorous learning environment to reach their highest potential, equipped to be lifelong learners.

Website: Charter Oak Primary

Phone: (309) 693-4433

Dr. Maude A. Sanders Primary School

The mission of Dr. Maude A. Sanders Primary, having a uniquely diverse population and a tradition of quality education, is to ensure that each student achieves optimal academic and personal potential by providing a safe and nurturing learning environment, which builds a strong foundation for character development and lifelong learning; utilizing best educational practices to engage each student in a culturally rich and challenging curriculum; and fostering partnerships with families and the community.

Website: Dr. Maude A. Sanders Primary

Phone: (309) 672-6571

Franklin Primary School

Empower every child at Franklin to be a collaborative problem-solver equipped with the passion and character to exceed beyond their own imagination and to ignite the world around them.

Website: Franklin Primary

Phone: (309) 682-2693

Annie Jo Gordon Community Learning Center (K-8)

As a school, our mission is to ensure that all children build a strong academic foundation, become life-long learners and grow in self-confidence and compassion through a challenging curriculum which nurtures each student's abilities and aspirations in partnership with parents, family and community.

Website: Annie Jo Gordon Community Learning Center

Phone: (309) 672-6522

Hines Primary School

The mission of Hines Primary School, a diverse learning community committed to excellence, is to ensure each child grows in character, academics, and relationships with others by creating a safe, positive and nurturing environment in which a caring, professional staff uses effective educational practices and partners with families and other community members.

Website: Hines Primary

Phone: (309) 672-6525

Keller Primary School

Keller Primary School seeks to create a challenging learning environment that establishes high expectations for success through development-appropriate instruction that allows for individual differences and learning styles. Our school promotes a safe, orderly, caring, and supportive environment. Each student’s self-esteem is fostered by positive relationships with students and staff. We strive to have our parents, teachers, and community members actively involved in our students’ learning.

Website: Keller Primary

Phone: (309) 693-4439

Lincoln K-8 School

Ensure each student's academic achievement and personal success through personalized learning, social-emotional learning and educational equity.

Website: Lincoln K-8

Phone: (309) 672-6542

Northmoor Primary School

We take pride in educating all students and honoring their diversity while advancing their highest potential for success in a global society.

Website: Northmoor Primary

Phone: (309) 693-4435

Whittier Primary School

Whittier Primary School utilizes research-based curriculum and instruction, differentiated instruction, and frequent assessment to ensure that all students succeed. Along with providing a safe environment for optimal learning, Whittier’s students are nurtured to maintain positive self-esteem, civic responsibility,and an appreciation for life-long learning.

Website: Whittier Primary

Phone: (309) 672-6569

Middle Schools

Harold B. Dawson Middle School

Our mission at Calvin Coolidge Middle School is to create a safe, nurturing environment for learning. This environment will provide students from diverse backgrounds with a variety of learning styles. It will allow students to reach their intellectual, physical, social, and emotional potential.

Website: Harold B. Dawson Middle School

Phone: (309) 672-6506

Liberty Leadership Middle School

Ensure that each student soars to his or her academic potential and becomes a socially responsible citizen.

Website: Liberty Leadership Middle School

Phone: (309) 693-4427

Mark W. Bills Middle School

Mark Bills Middle School aspires to develop well-rounded students with character who respond to challenges with optimism and an open mind, are confident in their own identities, make ethical decisions, join with others in celebrating our common humanity and are prepared to apply what they learn in real-world, complex and unpredictable situations.

Website: Mark W. Bills Middle School

Phone: (309) 693-4437

Rolling Acres Middle School

Our mission at Rolling Acres Middle School is to provide our students with the academic and social skills required to communicate, contribute to, and live cooperatively within a diverse community by encouraging learning as a life-long process, fostering creativity, and embracing technology and the arts.

Website: Rolling Acres Middle School

Phone: (309) 689-1100

Sterling Middle School

Sterling Middle School, in collaboration with parents, families and the community, will develop: Knowledgeable and balanced students with a challenging education program. Students with intercultural understanding and respect. Caring students to create a peaceful world.

Website: Sterling Middle School

Phone: (309) 672-6557

Von Steuben Middle School

The mission of Von Steuben Middle School, a dynamic member of the diverse Peoria Public School community, is to guarantee each student will develop a strong academic and social foundation to meet the challenges in an ever changing society by providing a safe, positive learning environment; creating partnerships among students, families, staff and community members; preparing students for transition to high school; honoring diversity and ensuring a staff dedicated to professional growth and student learning.

Website: Von Steuben Middle School

Phone: (309) 672-6561

Reservoir Gifted Academy

The Gifted and Talented Program of Peoria Public Schools is designed to address the academic and emotional needs of gifted students and high ability learners in grades kindergarten through 12. The program provides a learning atmosphere and support system that appropriately challenges gifted and talented students and high ability learners. Peoria Public Schools is committed to a school environment that fosters achievement and the realization of each student's potential.

Website: Reservoir Gifted Academy

Phone: (309) 672-6563

High Schools

Richwoods High School

Richwoods High School is a four-year, comprehensive school of approximately 1400 students. It is a special place of learning where students thrive in an atmosphere of excellence and achievement. Surrounding the spacious Richwoods terrazzo are the names and photographs of high achievers, championship athletes, and alumni in the military service-all mirroring the pride and long tradition of success one senses in this school. These intangible strengths are predominant: a sense of winning tradition reflected over the success of the past six decades and a "Richwood's mystique" embodied by our students. The learning environment at Richwoods High School is engaging and rigorous. Academic excellence is evident in all areas of instruction. Bright futures are in store for generations of Richwood's students.

Website: Richwoods High School

Phone: (309) 693-4400

Peoria High School

The mission of Peoria High School, a diverse community of learners with a rich tradition of excellence, is to ensure that each student accomplishes academic success, personal growth, and social responsibility by providing a safe and enriching learning environment customized to each students needs and aspirations.

Website: Peoria High School

Phone: (309) 672-6630

Manual High School

The mission is to redefine teaching and learning at Manual Academy.  We will ensure that each student reaches his or her full academic and personal potential through an educational approach characterized by continuously reconceptualizing teaching and learning in a nurturing environment.

Website: Manual High School

Phone: (309) 672-6600