Mission: Our mission at Isabella Bird Community School is to provide our diverse learners with a compassionate, intellectually stimulating, vigorous learning experience that ensures their well-being, engagement, academic and personal success, and contribution as global citizens.

Vision: Our vision is to build a heart-centered, service-based, and environmentally-conscious school that provides an exceptional and holistic educational experience for four to twelve year old children from the Stapleton area and neighboring communities, helping to lay a strong foundation for and commitment to higher education as well as to personal and professional accomplishment. We will do all we can to make certain our students are academically prepared, socially and environmentally responsible, culturally sensitive, and personally fulfilled life-long learners.

Why the school is named for Isabella Bird: Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) was a well-educated English explorer, author and naturalist. She lived a life unlike most other women of the Victorian era. She circumnavigated the globe three times, including 800 miles by horseback through the Colorado Rockies. Her pioneering spirit as a female role model who traveled extensively, wrote about her experiences, spoke out strongly against the discrimination she witnessed, and demonstrated compassion for the poorest societies of the world, along with so many of her other life experiences, apply to classroom teachings about travel, courage, deep reflection, international citizenship, celebrating diversity, and what it means to be a strong learner and a global thinker. The choice of Isabella Lucy Bird is intended to inspire future explorers, dreamers and trail blazers to do great things, well beyond the boundaries of the school’s walls. In the end, she personifies the school’s goal to promote learning for a more informed, compassionate, and unified global humanity.