The mission of Extera Public Schools is to ensure the success of children in Boyle Heights by providing a rigorous and effective standards-based education built on the pillars of excellence, equity and engagement. Through a school theme focused on the natural world and the inter-connectedness of all living things – human communities, plant and animal life, our living planet and beyond – children at Extera Public Schools will engage in hands-on, minds-on project-based learning that offers real world relevance, impact and self-empowerment.