Hence, in May 2003 the construction of a new 28,000 square foot school building was complete. The school, an oasis in the middle of tumult, also needed to be redesigned to accommodate the multilingual and multicultural curriculum, parental engagements, special programs, and community services.
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La Mesa, founded in the 1940s and rebuilt in early 1980s on one of the smallest sites of all Albuquerque elementary schools, was long deserving of moving out of some of the portable structures and into permanent classrooms and office space. Volunteer artists and teachers will conduct the classes. Coordinated, housed, and funded by the church, the Arts Academy will offer after-school classes in weaving, drawing, painting, music, dance, and photography beginning August 2006. The La Mesa Arts Academy is soon to be launched. "It offers critical learning and growing opportunities for children and adults." The church collaborates with the school in providing many child and adult programs.
"La Mesa is an excellent example of a community school," said Trey Hammond, Pastor of La Mesa Presbyterian Church located next to the school. "Even the adults in the community have a life in the school."ĭue to the unique curriculum and cluster of services, a growing number of immigrant and non-English speaking Albuquerque residents have been drawn to the school since the late 1990s. "This school, unlike most, is a magnet and the center of the neighborhood," said *Barbara Trujillo, retired La Mesa principal. In addition, the Community Health Partnership as well as a city Social Services Center, offering numerous bilingual programs and courses to become naturalized U.S. Too numerous to list all, a few include GED and English as a second language classes, entrepreneurship courses taught by immigrant women for women, and even coat drives for kids. The school also administers myriad after-school programs as well as adult classes. In association with the city of Albuquerque, La Mesa hosts early childhood (infant to kindergarten) programs that require parent involvement. Team teaching and a strong concern for the larger La Mesa community characterize the school which administers or hosts numerous outreach programs for children, their parents, and the greater community. A bilingual school, non-English speaking students and parents comprise the norm, not the exception. The student body is represented by approximately 75% minorities, the highest minority population of any school in the Albuquerque Public Schools system. The area's elementary school, La Mesa, serves a large culturally and linguistically diverse group of children. It is also where young families with children are trying to live, work, learn, and get established in America. The low socioeconomic neighborhood is scene to high crime, gangs, and rampant drug activity. One of Albuquerque's first post World War II neighborhoods, it is home to much of the City's immigrant population and largest Native American community. A physically land-locked walking community, the area is framed by Lomas and Central and Louisiana and Wyoming. The war zone, it has been referred to by some.
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