Where Your Child Learns
to Strive for Allah.

Elk Grove's first Islam-centered K–5 school where faith isn't a subject, it's the foundation of everything. Real teachers. Real community. Real transformation.

K–5 Islam-Centered
Education
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وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ
"And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me." Quran 51:56

What if school was the place
your child discovered why they exist?

Most schools teach children what to know. Strive teaches them who they are. Every subject, every relationship, every day grounded in the clearest purpose of all.

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Our Story · Strive Islamic School · Est. 2025
Why Strive

Your child deserves a school
built around their whole identity

What keeps parents up at night

A school that teaches about Islam but doesn't live it.

Faith reduced to a single class period, then left at the door by lunch

A curriculum that never asks why only how and what

A child growing up disconnected from their identity and their deen

An environment where the fitrah is slowly chipped away year after year

No school in Elk Grove that truly centers the Muslim experience

What Strive was built to protect

A school where Islam is the air children breathe every subject, every day.

Islam is the lens through which every subject is taught math, science, language

Students connect knowledge back to its Creator every single day

A whole-child approach that tends to the soul, not just the grade

The fitrah actively nurtured protected from everything that erodes it

Elk Grove's first and only Islam-centered K–5 built by this community, for this community

"This isn't a school that teaches Islam. It's a school that lives it."

A Day at Strive

What Your Child's Day Actually Looks Like

Morning Quran
🌅 Morning
Quran before the world gets loud.
The day begins not with attendance but with recitation. Children settle with the words of Allah grounded before anything else touches their attention.
Mid-morning learning
📚 Mid-Morning
Science asks. Islam answers.
A lesson on water becomes a miracle of rain. A math problem becomes a reflection on divine precision. Every subject points back to its Creator.
STEM afternoon
🤖 Afternoon
Building robots. Competing globally.
A FIRST LEGO League team built from scratch competing internationally in year one. Children who are genuinely, visibly excited to be here.
Community every day
🤝 Every Day
Character that follows them home.
Parents say it consistently: their children come home kinder, more curious, more rooted. A school should change a child this one does.

This is what your child's school day could look like. InshaAllah.

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Year One · 2025

From zero In one year

Not achievements on paper. Things children actually lived in their very first year of school.

Strive Year One students
Strive · Year One · 2025–26
01
STEM · Global Stage
Students built robots and competed on a global stage.
From scratch, no prior program Strive formed a FIRST LEGO League team and competed internationally. Elk Grove Muslim children showing the world what they're made of.
02
Curriculum · Coding
Children who beg to go to coding class.
A STEM curriculum built around genuine excitement not obligation. Students who don't want the lesson to end. That's the only measure that matters.
03
Community · Partnerships
Global partnerships. National recognition. Year one.
Debuted at the LA MAS Convention, connecting with Islamic schools across the US. Curriculum partners, advocates, collaborators all in year one.
04
Language · Arabic
Arabic as a living language, not a rote exercise.
Piloting Lingo Dice developed by a local specialist where children acquire Arabic naturally, joyfully, purposefully. Language that lives, not memorized.
05
Culture · Every Day
Children who wake up and ask to go to school.
Parents say it every single day. That doesn't happen at a school children merely tolerate. That happens at a school that genuinely sees them.

Year one was proof. Year two is a promise.
Here is where we're going.

Admissions & Tuition

Not a school fee An investment in
your child's deen

Every Muslim family in Elk Grove deserves access to Islam-centered education. Our pricing is transparent, fair, and built to last because the return is a lifetime.

Enrollment Process
01
Apply Online
Submit the application + $100 processing fee to hold your spot.
02
Upload Documents
Birth certificate, immunization records, prior school records.
03
Family Interview
We want to know your child. You'll want to know us.
04
Welcome to Strive
Enrollment confirmed. Your child's journey begins.
2026–2027 Enrollment Is Open
Seats are intentionally limited small classes are what make Strive work.
Books & Supplies
All curriculum, books, and classroom materials full year
$450 / yr
Application Fee
Non-refundable admissions processing fee, per student
$100 once

Join Us.
Believe in What
We're Building.

Strive is more than a school. It is a promise to the next generation that they will be seen, nurtured, and equipped to lead with faith and purpose.