The mission of the Caspar Creek Learning Community is to prepare kindergarten through fifth-grade students to be socially literate, to calculate and think logically and to read, write, and speak clearly. Students will be taught respect for the earth and encouraged to become life-long learners engaged in community life. This will be achieved through small class sizes, multi-age classroom environments, interactive learning with peers and staff, project based learning, developmentally appropriate use of technology, active involvement of parents and other community members, and the utilization of the natural habitat provided by the seven acres, adjacent to Russian Gulch State Park, on which our learning center is situated, as well as the surrounding Mendocino coastal area. Our learning community serves students and their families living on the Mendocino Coast.