Del Rio Student Center-Quest Academy exists to personalize each student’s educational experience, creating passionate, lifelong learners who collectively form a perfect mosaic. Del Rio Student Center provides TK-8th-grade students with an engaging, blended learning environment, combining the best of classroom instruction with a STEAM-focused program combining excellence with an alternative homeschooling option program. By personalizing our approach through the collaborative nature of our program, we find that success is in unlocking each student’s potential, creating lifelong learners who are committed and involved members of their community. Two program options are available:
Quest Academy TK-8: Students attend engaging grade-level classes Monday-Friday with Monday as an early release day. Students benefit from focused instruction, enrichment opportunities, and small-group learning designed to meet their individual needs and support their academic growth.
Homeschool Learning Labs K-8: Homeschool Learning Labs are offered every Tuesday and Thursday, providing students with engaging, hands-on learning experiences in a variety of subjects. These fun and interactive labs include opportunities in core academics, arts, drama, project-based learning, and more.
The Del Rio Student Center Leadership Club took a volunteer field trip to the Animal Savior Sanctuary in Perris, reported teacher Claudia McGinty. The students had the opportunity to interact with animals that had been rescued from difficult situations, including dogs, pigs, geese, goats, miniature horses, and donkeys.
The Del Rio Student Center welcomed the Western Science Center Mobile Science Lab, shared Principal Kim Ballantyne-Morse. Students in grades 1-5 had the "hands-on" opportunity to explore fossils of extinct animals that once inhabited the region, as well as non-extinct animals and plants.
Students at the Del Rio Student Center are learning about the Elements of Art, focusing on “line” and “shape”, reported teacher Monica Peralta. TK and K worked on making different kinds of lines. First and 2nd used geometric shapes to create their own robot. Third through 5th learned about using lines to add texture to their drawings of animals and began using foreground, middle ground, and background. Sixth through 8th used organic shapes to create fold-out landscapes with foreground, middle ground, and background.
Fifty TK-8 homeschool students and their families enjoyed a visiting tide pool experience at Springs’ Del Rio Student Center, reported JessicaRapoport, Homeschool Collaborative Teacher. They were able to see and touch a wide range of sea animals, including a shark, horseshoe crab, sea star, sea snails, and stingray. They were also able to touch shells and scuba diving equipment.
Springs offers a state of the art education with teachers that really care and always welcome our support as parents. The number one priority is the students’ well-being and their education.
