Our Approach

Flexibility and customization

We offer the same educational excellence whether you join us at an in-person campus or online, on a schedule that fits your family. Hands-on, science-based learning is at the heart of everything we do.

6× A+ Excelling Science-Based Curriculum In-Person or Online
EDUPRIZE students engaged in hands-on learning
EDUPRIZE Queen Creek students together on campus
EDUPRIZE Gilbert campus life
Built Around Your Family

A path for every learner

In-Person or Online

The same educational excellence whether you join us at a campus or online.

Flexible Schedules

A regular day schedule, or an option built around your family's lifestyle.

FLEX

The same great curriculum and finest teachers, on a flexible schedule.

STEAM

A focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics.

Before/After School

Programs that accommodate busy working families.

Extracurriculars

Theatre, sports, or music. There's a way for your child to get involved.

EDUPRIZE students in a hands-on science activity
Best Science School · Phoenix Magazine

Rigorous, science-based program

Our science-based and technology-infused Cottages provide opportunities for children to apply mathematics, language arts, and social studies in a hands-on, project-based curriculum. In addition to research-based, award-winning language arts and math curriculum, students solidify basic skills through:

  • Science specials that enhance the Cottage focus
  • High-powered microscopy, dissections, and 3D modeling
  • Annual science fairs
  • Field experiences such as the U of A Science Center, Legoland Discovery Center, and Kartchner Caverns
  • Live Learning Labs and hands-on, inquiry-based learning
EDUPRIZE students using classroom technology
Recognized for Innovation

Technology-infused curriculum

EDUPRIZE is known for its state-of-the-art technological infrastructure across campuses, with multiple instructional technology labs, each with a special program focus. Examples include:

  • Skills Lab and Science Labs
  • Document cameras, interactive whiteboards, iPads, desktops, and Chromebooks in every classroom
  • Blended learning beginning in Kindergarten
  • Technology centers for skill reinforcement, research, and benchmark testing
  • A 360° projection dome experience
Recognized for Excellence

A reputation built over 30 years

6× A+ Excelling
Longest streak of any AZ charter
Best Science School
Phoenix Magazine
Innovative School
Recognized for technology & applied sciences
Est. 1995
30+ years serving Arizona families

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An EDUPRIZE Original

Cottages are an EDUPRIZE original

These quarterly, thematic focuses allow students to learn and apply basic skills through a hands-on, science-based program. Cross-curricular instruction ensures students can transfer knowledge to new content areas and stay actively engaged. Our Cottages offer multiple-modality, 9-week units in Life Science, Physical Science, Social Science, and Earth Science, from Kindergarten through 6th grade.

Explore by Grade

A full year of Cottages

Physical Science

All About Me

Students explore how their senses can detect light, sound, and vibration and how technology can be used to extend their senses.

Celebrations

Students will understand their roles and responsibilities as citizens within their own context as well as their own culture.

Earth & Space Science

Habitats

Students explore weather patterns and seasonal cycles and how they impact plants and animals in their habitats.

Life Science

Life Cycles

Students develop an understanding of how plants & animals survive and that the world is comprised of living and non-living things.

Physical Science

Wavelength Arcade

Students develop an understanding of the effects of forces and waves, and how they can impact or be impacted by objects near and far away.

Plymouth Plantation

Students develop an understanding of how a community functions, including their local community, and how each member contributes to the common good.

Earth & Space Science

Resource Resort

Students develop an understanding that earth materials are essential for an organism's survival.

Life Science

Bird House

Students develop an understanding that Earth supports a large variety of organisms and their survival depends on earth resources.

Physical Science

Sweet Shop

Students develop an understanding of observable properties of matter and how changes in energy (heating or cooling) can affect matter or materials.

Global Exchange

Students develop an understanding of the world around them, gaining insight on how other cultures and civilizations have influenced who we are as a community, state, and nation.

Earth & Space Science

Weather Station

Students develop an understanding of the role of water and wind in weather and its environmental impact. They study changing patterns in the sky with the position of the Sun, Moon, and stars.

Life Science

Dinosaur Dig

Students develop an understanding that life on Earth depends on energy from the Sun or energy from other organisms to survive.

Physical Science

Illumination Station

Students develop an understanding of the sources, properties, and characteristics of energy along with the relationship between energy transfer and the human body.

Life Science

Plant Nursery

Students develop an understanding of the flow of energy in a system beginning with the Sun to and among organisms. They also understand what plants and animals do to increase survival.

Earth & Space Science

Desert Lab

Students develop an understanding of how the Sun provides light and energy for Earth systems.

Arizona Highways

Students study Arizona, focusing on contributions of various cultural and ethnic groups, economic and political elements, structure of government, and roles of citizens.

Physical Science

Energy Lab

Students learn how Earth's resources can be transformed into energy and develop a better understanding of electricity and magnetism.

Life Science

Reptile Ranch

Students develop an understanding of the diversity of past and present organisms, factors impacting organism diversity, and evidence of change over time.

Earth & Space Science

Grand Canyon Marketplace

Students develop an understanding of Earth systems and how they interact, including how weather, climate, and humans can impact the environment.

Exploration Station

Students study the Americas: theories of development, exploration and colonization, and the roles and responsibilities of members in a society.

Physical Science

Physics Foundry

Students develop an understanding that changes can occur to matter and objects on Earth or in space, but energy and matter follow the pattern of being conserved during those changes.

Life Science

Gene Machine

Students develop an understanding of patterns and how genetic information is passed from generation to generation, and how genetics and environment impact an organism's survival.

Earth & Space Science

Planetarium

Students develop an understanding of how gravitational forces in space cause observable patterns due to the position of Earth, Sun, Moon, and stars.

American Dream

Students study U.S. history, including historic and economic events, the creation of the Constitution, development of government, immigration, and civic roles and responsibilities.

Physical Science

Atomic Avenue

Students develop an understanding of forces and energy, and how energy can transfer from one object to another or convert from one form to another.

Life Science

Rainforest

Students develop an understanding of how energy from the Sun is transferred through ecosystems.

Earth & Space Science

Observatory

Students develop an understanding of the scale and properties of objects in the solar system, and how gravity and energy cause observable patterns in the Sun-Earth-Moon system.

Imperial Highway

Students understand the cultural, religious, economic, and political systems of selected societies in the Eastern Hemisphere.

Learning in Action

See our approach come to life

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EDUPRIZE Queen Creek student activity
EDUPRIZE Gilbert student activity
EDUPRIZE Queen Creek students and teacher
EDUPRIZE Gilbert students and teacher
Common Questions

Approach FAQs

Cottages are EDUPRIZE's original, quarterly thematic units. Each 9-week unit lets students apply core skills through a hands-on, science-based lens across Life Science, Physical Science, Earth & Space Science, and Social Science.

Cottages run from Kindergarten through 6th grade. Our 7th and 8th grade students move into a Junior High model with elective courses instead.

We offer the same educational excellence whether your child joins us in person at Gilbert or Queen Creek, or through EDUPRIZE Online.

Classrooms include document cameras, interactive whiteboards, iPads, desktop computers, and Chromebooks, with blended learning starting in Kindergarten.

Schedule a campus tour at eduprize.com/tour to see our Cottages, labs, and classrooms firsthand.

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See our approach for yourself

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RETURNING FAMILIES

Two things before Open House

Every returning family completes this each year

It only takes a few minutes in the Parent Portal.

  1. Complete Existing Student Registration Required annually in the Infinite Campus Parent Portal. View step-by-step guide

  2. Update your payment method Keep tuition, fees, and school store payments up to date. View step-by-step guide