We, the parents, community, residents  and staff of the Ralph H. Metcalfe Community Academy believe that the school is the most important institution in the community. Therefore we seek to engineer a sense of confidence and cooperation with all the interested persons to ensure that the following goals are achieved:

1. The school's fundamental purpose must be to provide all children in attendance with a positive, productive, and successful learning experience.

2. The school must be known as a safe place, free from internal and external pressures that may negatively affect their learning experience.

3. Through a combined effort of staff, parents, residents and government officials, school-based programs as well as the physical plant, must be accessible to serve the general needs of the broad-based community.

4. Our educators will provide this philosophy among students: We can learn to plan; we plan to succeed. We expect excellence! We expect success! We can conceive it ! We can achieve it! This has become our school motto.