ArtSpace Charter School

ArtSpace Charter School offers a complete education, through an integrated curriculum centered around visual and performing arts, utilizing an experiential approach. We believe in a family-centered, cooperative approach to education that encourages parental involvement and community service in order to nurture responsible citizenship. We are dedicated to the vision that the ArtSpace Charter School community will be a national benchmark in educational excellence through integration of the arts. ArtSpace Charter School is part of the A+ Schools Program at the North Carolina Arts Council. The A+ Schools Program is the largest, longest running, most successful arts-based whole-school reform effort in the nation.

Year School Opened: 2001-02

Grant Awarded:  2020-21

Initial Grade Levels Served: K-8


2020-21 Student Demographic Data

2021-22 Student Demographic Data


Urbanicity:  Rural / Swannanoa, NC

% ED Student Population Persons in Poverty (Buncombe County)

2020-21 School Year: 37% 12.2%

2021-22 School Year: 45% 13.9%