Barnhart School's mission is to provide an unexcelled quality education in an atmosphere of respect and love, encouraging independence and responsibility. The school's educational programs include academic, spiritual, creative, and physical opportunities in an environment that embraces ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity. The attitudes and skills cultivated at Barnhart School foster a lifelong enthusiasm for learning and high moral and ethical standards. Barnhart School prepares its graduates to be responsible, committed, and caring individuals, ready and eager to attain higher levels of academic success, and with the desire and ability to make appropriate choices for their lives and positive contributions to society. Barnhart School's philosophy is to assist each child in reaching his or her highest potential; assist each child in recognizing him or herself as a valuable component of the universe as a whole, with the ability to express his or her individual goodness in the larger world; assist each child in developing true self-discipline; social skills necessary for successful everyday living; and ensure that each child experiences some success every day.