The Boys & Girls Academy of Mesa, (a collaboration with Mesa Public Schools, the City of Mesa, and the Boys & Girls Club of the East Valley, housed at the Grant Woods Branch of Boys & Girls Club of the East Valley), has as its mission the providing of an excellent basic education for middle school students (K through 8th grades) through the use of an arts-based curriculum which provides a continuum of education using the mediums of art, drama, dance, music, etc., using techniques such as television and radio, which target the development of a heightened interest in continuing education, and the development to the fullest possible of the skills and talents of the youth attending its programs.