School Partners

Lead Guitar is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona and proudly serves school districts across the many states listed below with weekly in-person visits from our highly-qualified Teaching Artists.

If Lead Guitar serves your city and you’re interested in becoming a partner school, visit our start a program page.

If Lead Guitar doesn’t currently serve your city, check out our digital subscription and remote consulting services over at GuitarEnsembleMethod.com.
Students served to date through In-School Guitar Ensemble Classes: 60,000+
Every year, Lead Guitar teaches 8,000 students...
  • through 250 daily, year-long classes
  • at 105 schools in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Tucson
  • while training 125 School Teachers
  • and reaching 45,000 additional students and community members through events and performances.
  • 86% of Lead Guitar participants qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.
Key Partners:
  • Aspen Music Festival & School
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Georgia
  • Arizona State University
  • Metropolitan State University of Denver

Arizona

Tucson

Amphitheater High School
Amphitheater Middle School
Apollo Middle School
Drachman K-8 Montessori
Flowing Wells High School
Flowing Wells Junior High School
F.O. Holaway Elementary School
Intermountain Academy
J. Robert Hendricks Elementary School
La Cima Middle School
Morgan Maxwell K-8
Pistor Middle School
Pueblo Gardens Elementary School
Valencia Middle School

Phoenix

Alhambra High School
Apache Junction High School
Camelback High School
Canyon Breeze ES
‍Central High School
Cesar Chavez High School
Desert Horizon Elementary School
Edison Elementary School
Fees College Preparatory Middle School
Greenway Middle School
James W Rice Elementary School
Justine Spitalny Elementary School
Kenilworth Elementary School
Kino Junior High School
Maryvale High School
Metro Tech High School
North High School
P.T. Coe Elementary School
Page High School
Paul Lawrence Dunbar Elementary School
Poston Junior High School
San Carlos High School
The Academies at South Mountain
Trevor Browne High School

Colorado

Denver

Adams City High School
DSST: GVR Middle School
Dupont Elementary School
Federal Heights Elementary School
Fort Logan Northgate 3-8
Kearney Middle School
McElwain Elementary School
Monaco Elementary School
Sheridan High School
Summit Academy

Roaring Fork Valley

Basalt Middle School
Riverview School
Roaring Fork High School
Ross Montessori School
Two Rivers Community School

ILLINOIS

Chicago

Brighton Park
Calmeca Academy of Fine Arts and Dual Language
Chicago Academy Elementary School
Daniel Hale Williams Preparatory School of Medicine
Edward Tilden Career Community Academy High School
Esmerelda Santiago Elementary School
Foster Park Elementary School
Mariano Azuela Elementary School
Marine Leadership Academy
Mosaic Elementary School
Muchin College Prep
Orozco Fine Arts Academy
Richardson Middle School
Ruben Salazar Bilingual Center
Sharon Christa McAuliffe Elementary School
Victoria Soto High School

CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles

Belmont Senior High School
Canterbury Avenue Elementary School
Carlos Santana Arts Academy
Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School
East Valley High School
Edwin Markham Middle School
El Sereno Middle School
Francisco Sepulveda Middle School
Gage Middle School
Huntington Park High School and STEAM Magnet
James Madison Middle School and Magnets
James Monroe High School
Langdon Avenue Elementary School
Maurice Sendak Elementary ACT Magnet
Mayberry Street Elementary School
Michelle Obama Elementary School
Oliver Wendell Holmes Middle School
PUC eCALS High School
Ulysses S Grant Senior High School
Van Nuys Elementary School
Woodrow Wilson Senior High School
Young Oak Kim Academy

Georgia

Athens

Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School

Atlanta

Conyers Middle School
Heritage High School
HJ Russell West End Academy Middle School
Jonesboro High School
Locust Grove Middle School
Martha Ellen Stillwell School of the Arts
M.D. Roberts Middle School of the Performing Arts
Morrow High School
New Schools at Carver (Early College and STEAM Academy)
North Atlanta High School
Rockdale County High School

michigan

Detroit

Cass Technical High School
Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music & Art
Marjorie Carlson Elementary School
Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School
Pershing High School
Pulaski Elementary-Middle School

Pontiac

TBD