The mission of Dr. Lena Edwards Academic Charter School is to ensure educational excellence and character development for all students in grades K through 8, cultivating both learning and empathy. The school provides a stable, rigorous, unbroken continuum of classical academic instruction and formal character education, resulting in the highest levels of student achievement, ethical behavior and cultural literacy, and delivered within a productive, consistent and supportive school environment.

DLEACS provides a state standards-based and stimulating educational program emphasizing academic, social, and civic growth of its scholars in a safe environment that cultivates respect for self and others.