Turnaround Arts: California builds a network of support around our partner schools, connecting them with regional community arts organizations, teaching artists, arts and cultural institutions, performance venues, professional learning experts, and higher education professionals in order to build community support systems that lead to sustainable change.

During the 2023/24 school year, Turnaround Arts: California is partnering with 24 public elementary and middle schools spread from our state’s southern border to our northern coast, with schools in urban, suburban, and rural communities. All are Title I schools with significant populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

Turnaround Arts: California Partner Schools, 2023-2024

Alameda County
Westlake Middle, Oakland Unified School District

Humboldt County
Hoopa Valley Elementary, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District

Los Angeles County
Arts in Action Elementary, Arts in Action Community Charter Schools
Arts in Action Middle School, Arts in Action Community Charter Schools
Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary, Los Angeles Unified School District
Frank J. Zamboni Middle, Paramount Unified School District
Garfield Elementary, Alhambra Unified School District
Janie P. Abbott Elementary, Lynwood Unified School District
Los Cerritos Elementary, Paramount Unified School District
Martin Luther King Elementary, Compton Unified School District
McKinley Elementary, Compton Unified School District
Washington Elementary, Lynwood Unified School District
Whaley Middle, Compton Unified School District

Monterey County
Echo Valley Elementary, North Monterey County Unified School District
Marina Vista Elementary Arts Academy, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
Mary Chapa Elementary, Greenfield Union School District
MLK School of the Arts, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District

Orange County
Sierra Preparatory Academy, Santa Ana Unified School District
Willard Intermediate, Santa Ana Unified School District

San Bernardino County
Barton Elementary, San Bernardino City Unified School District

San Diego County
Finney Elementary, Chula Vista Elementary School District
John J. Montgomery Elementary, Chula Vista Elementary School District

San Joaquin County
Fremont/Lopez Elementary, Stockton Unified School District

San Mateo County
Costaño School, Ravenswood City School District