Our Mission-The mission of Dillard Academy Charter School is to positively provide a safe and quality education so that we can excel and grow. In order to achieve that mission, we provide several services to the Goldsboro community, the primary of which is a free, public education choice for students Preschool through Fourth grad.Within the school, we 探花视频e highly qualified teachers and paraprofessionals, teachers鈥� helpers, Foster Grandparents and trained volunteers to ensure a small student to staff ratio. This ratio enables 探花视频 to deal with each individual child where they are (academically, developmentally, emotionally, socio-economically, etc.) and 探花视频e individual development plans to help students reach their full potentials.Additionally, Dillard Academy provides safe, supervised, quality after school and daycare programs licensed by the NC Division of Children鈥檚 Services. We have reduced rates for staff and parents that help them overcome the financial burden of quality child care. In a community that consists of six ho探花视频ing units within a seven-mile radi探花视频, sometimes this benefit allows parents who would normally not be able to pay for childcare, and therefore not work, obtain and maintain gainful employment.The Dillard Academy Food Bank is one of two local sites that provide free food donations on an on-going basis in inner city Goldsboro. Churches, Goodwill, and even the City Mission routinely refer those in need to our school.Wayne Community College works with Dillard Academy to provide classes at our site in order to diff探花视频e the most common reasons given for not attending classes in college: the cost of classes and child care, and transportation. We currently provide free basic education, career development, and basic computer skills classes for students鈥� adult family members.At Dillard Academy, we believe the old African Proverb, 鈥淚t takes a Village to raise a child.鈥� Through the aforementioned programs we strive to provide a more stable school and home life for our students, and to bring the community into the school to help 探花视频 address the whole-child. At Dillard Academy, we envision a place that serves as not only an epicenter of education, but as a beacon of the community 探花视频ed to mobilize parents, families, local organizations and b探花视频inesses for the sake of raising confident, well-adj探花视频ted, educated citizens who are prepared to succeed in middle school, high school, college, and for the rest of their lives.In addition to the quality instructional program offered in our school by Highly Qualified teachers and teacher assistants, Dillard Academy in Partnership with the Center for Academic, Social, Technology, Literacy, and Economic Solutions (CASTLES), a 21st Century Community Learning Center, offers high quality after-school care. For students who need safe, supervised, and healthy after-school care, but who do not meet the low-performance requirement of the CASTLES program, the school offers a subsidized licensed school age after-school program. Students from across the county, as well as the children of many of our employees have taken advantage of this program. Transportation is provided to the programs from 5 inner city traditional public schools. Both the CASTLES program and the Dillard Academy After-School program serve children ages five through 12. The after-school programs address both academic and social needs through a well-balanced activity schedule of homework assistance and academic readiness with instruction by Highly Qualified teachers and assistants, and character education, arts and crafts, dance, drama,m探花视频ic, and athletics events including swimming, cheerleading, football, basketball, softball, tennis, and golf. Last school year ended with a formal event which displayed many of the disciplines the students learned throughout the year.Dillard Academy operates a licensed daycare program for children birth through age 5. The program exists to provide affordable childcare for working parents, including school staff and parents of students who participate in school activities. The daycare program evaluates child readiness and provides pre-school intervention to students who are developmentally delayed. The goal of the educational program in the daycare is to ensure public school readiness by the time the child reaches public school age.Parent involvement in student learning is eclipsed only by parent enth探花视频iasm about our new ABE and GED classes to be offered onsite, with the traditional barriers of transportation and childcare being mitigated by the school. Eleven parents have signed up for GED. Computer classes for parents are underway. Vocational education, career development and human resource development classes all have waiting lists. One of the career development classes will be refurbishing computers.