About the Melanin Day School Academy

Our Mission

Our mission is to inform and educate families of African ancestry on methods and practices to heal and thrive together, by providing cultural enrichment services that promote optimal health.

Our History

Founded October 3rd, 2020 in the height of the Covid19 pandemic, the Melanin Day School Academy has been dedicated to creating a village of support networks, where scholars thrive at being their best selves yet.

Our Team

Our team consist of parents, teachers and other community leaders that are passionate about helping each other succeed. Our cultural enrichment specialist have a combination of 30+ years of educational experience and are so happy to share it with you!

Fall 2023 Offerings

Agricultural Warriors

Afro-Dancersize Whole Family Fitness

MDSA Agriculture Warriors is a Health Education course. Students will learn how to interlink the components of health to their everyday knowledge, life, attitude and skills. The children will become Agriculture Warriors, to serve and protect the environment we call home.

Afro-Dancersize Whole Family Fitness

Join in on the fun with this culturally immersive class the whole family will enjoy. Move your body, have some fun, and learn about dance from the African Diaspora. Your body will thank you!

Dynamic Code Builders

Afro-Dancersize Whole Family Fitness

Cultural Creative Choreography

Learn to debunk the myth that you are unable to code. You code everyday and may not realize it. Increase your awareness, strengthen your reasoning and logic skills to help you to thrive in this technological world.

Cultural Creative Choreography

Acrobatics: Stunts and Tumbling

Cultural Creative Choreography

Join in on the fun with this culturally immersive class designed to empower youth with the ability to create dances and choreography, through a deeply rooted African lens. Children will learn new choreography, and be supported to create their own.

Acrobatics: Stunts and Tumbling

Welcome to the Flying High Tumbling Afrobats! We are happy that you have an interest in joining us for African Centered Acrobatics focused on self-mastery and overcoming challenges as a team.

Saturday School

Acrobatics: Stunts and Tumbling

Many would say that we have "Lost Our Way". Western educational systems have lead us astray. Like many before us have come together for a new day. Cheers to Africas people coming together on 1st and 3rd Saturdays!

Performance Teams

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Travel and Field Trips

You(Parents) and Your children will learn to put Mind Over Matter through self-mastering activities in order to showcase choreography and skills learned at a variety of performances to inspire, motivate and empower healing within the Pan-African Diaspora and beyond.

Travel and Field Trips

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Travel and Field Trips

Exposure, Exposure, Exposure! Travel along with the Melanin Scholars to explore the world beyond your textbook. Create memories that last a lifetime and connect with like-minded humans that love the smell of travel in the air.

Sponsors/Donors/Champions

Looking to donate to a charitable cause? The Melanin Day School Academy is a great organization that deserves your support. Don't wait any longer, invest your best and we will take care of the rest.