MUSE Global School, CA

Arthur E. Wright Middle School serves grades 6 to 8 in Calabasas as part of Las Virgenes Unified School District. Our GATE program started in 2013 with one teacher and a single cohort of thirty students. Today eight teachers lead three gifted cohorts in each grade, grouped together for English language arts, social science and science, and students qualify through testing with the school psychologist. Every student chooses year-long electives. Options include beginning, intermediate and advanced band, beginning strings, concert orchestra, robotics, Spanish, yearbook, fine art, school service, and Battle of the Spartans, an academic competition class covering language arts, social science, math and science. Our bands perform at festivals, concerts and Disneyland. Clubs meet after school most days, including debate, chess, art, animation and video games, Dungeons and Dragons, Odyssey of the Mind, and the Green Team, which works with our school garden. The Media Center stays open until 4:00 p.m., and students enrolled in the district's LVUSD Plus aftercare ride to the A.C. Stelle site. Students can also join Leadership and the Honor Society.

Every class at Lupin Hill Elementary spends 40 minutes a week in our Outdoor World Lab, a two-acre outdoor classroom on our Calabasas campus with 20 raised garden beds, an orchard, farm-style growing rows, a greenhouse, a mud kitchen, an archaeology dig zone and a musical instrument meadow. Students in TK through 5th grade grow plants from seed, transplant and tend them, then harvest, prepare and taste their crops, and we mark the Spring Equinox and Winter Solstice together outdoors. A permaculture food forest and a native pollinator garden are being built now. Indoors, students design and build in our Tinkertown Makerspace. We are part of Las Virgenes Unified School District, and families in other neighborhoods can apply through a School of Choice permit. LVUSD+ after-school care runs on campus with arts and crafts, hands-on science, social-emotional activities and homework help, with play-based reinforcement for TK and kindergarten students. Families gather for our Food & Culture Festival, family dances, a talent show, a Halloween parade and Trunk-or-Treat, and students take part in schoolwide service projects.

Qualia: The School for Deeper Learning, serving grades 5-12, is a progressive private school specializing in gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) learners. The school provides robust support for students with language-based learning disabilities, dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, and other exceptionalities within a highly gifted educational framework. At the heart of its mission is a commitment to individualized, flexible programming that encourages students to explore their passions through a rich, inquiry-driven curriculum. Qualia employs innovative pedagogical approaches, including Socratic methods and seminar-style classes with an average student-teacher ratio of 7:1, ensuring personalized attention and deep engagement in learning. Unique offerings such as inquiry-driven honors classes, advanced STEM programs, and a senior honors thesis foster an academic culture that values curiosity and creativity. The school specifically serves neurodiverse learners, providing specialized support for twice-exceptional students who are both gifted and have learning differences. This holistic approach guides students toward college readiness while cultivating authentic voices prepared to contribute meaningfully to society.