Choose your path. Know your path. Walk your path.
Welcome to MG21 Liberal Arts Charter School
WELCOME TO
MG21 Liberal Arts Charter School
MG21 Upper Campus
MG21 Middle Campus
What Makes MG21 unique?
Our curriculum focuses on relationships, wellness and academic skills for the whole person. Students who thrive here are curious self-directed learners who enjoy inquiry-based and hands-on learning in a smaller educational community.
PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PBL)
PBL is an inquiry-based learning process in which students are engaged in designing, planning, investigating, researching and presenting their own projects. Academic skill building through projects that involve reading, writing, math and critical thinking standards make learning more meaningful.
ACADEMIC SKILLS & SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH
Rigorous academic skills (writing, thinking, reading, math, discussion), 21st century skills and social-emotional skills are fostered at MG21 so students will be successful in school and after graduation.
SERVICE LEARNING
Our service learning curriculum connects students with community organizations through volunteering and community action. It increases student confidence working with others and empowers students to feel they can make change in the world.
OUTDOOR WILDERNESS EDUCATION & STEWARDSHIP
Outdoor wilderness education and stewardship is incorporated into our curriculum so students learn green and sustainable practices which encourage student awareness of nature and enhance their role as stewards of the environment.
WHAT IS OUR SECRET TO SUCCESS?
Our mission is to provide a student centered educational community for independent learners.
WHAT IS 21ST CENTURY LEARNING?
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Collaboration
Communication
Curiosity and Imagination
Commitment and Motivation
Community and Citizenship
WHAT IS THE COMMUNITY SAYING ABOUT US?
“I have a better understanding of my path and goals in life and what I need to be successful — I have become someone I never thought I could be” – MG21 alumni
2026-27 MG21 SCHOOL YEAR HELPFUL LINKS for FAMILIES:
View the 2026-27 School Year Calendar.
Go to the Infinite Campus Parent Login page.
View our MG21 Newsletters.
Attendance Line: 608-316-1924 or email mg21.attendance@mgschools.net
Lunch & Breakfast Menu
The breakfast and lunch menus are posted for the current month. You can toggle between breakfast and lunch in the upper left-hand corner.
SCHOOL HOURS:
Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri: The building will be open at 8:30 am. The day ends at 3:00 pm (UC) & 3:10 pm (MC).
Wed: The building will be open at 8:30 am. The day ends at 1:00 pm.
MG21 families please consider joining our Family Teacher Forum (FTF), an organization for parents and caregivers of MG21 students to build community, learn about what’s going on at MG21, discuss issues that are relevant to our students’ social and emotional health, and to strengthen our school and student/ family partnerships. All meetings and events take place at MG21. If you would like to be involved please keep an eye out for the monthly messages announcing the meeting and the agenda. If you would like to join our Google Group please contact the front office.
Monona Grove District Equity Statement
Students of the Monona Grove School District have experienced significant, measurable, system-wide inequities in achievement due to interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism and biases. We recognize our historic failure and seek to address how race; language; religion; income and ability statuses; country of origin; sex; gender identity and sexual orientation; and their intersectionality impacts educational outcomes. The Monona Grove School District commits to the disruption of societal and historical inequities and elimination of disparities. The Monona Grove School District believes strongly in the value of diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice. The Monona Grove School District commits to maximizing the educational outcomes for each and every student.
Equity statement unanimously adopted by the Monona Grove Board of Education on September 9, 2020.