John Bartram High School seeks to create and sustain a safe and nurturing learning environment, which encourages all students to achieve: Provide all students with high quality instruction supported by a rich, challenging diversified, and relevant curriculum in a clean, safe, and orderly facility; Embrace parents and community (faith-based institutions of higher learning, and local businesses) as partners in educating students; Create a collegial teaching and learning atmosphere so that the teachers grow and where all staff is visible and empowered as a collegial team; Intellectually shape students to pursue paths of inquiry, to interpret and evaluate what is discovered, and to express reactions effectively.