The Armory's Programs for Schools seek to make the visual arts an integral part of the curriculum for students and teachers who would otherwise have little or no arts experiences as part of the school day. Professional artists teach in all of these programs, usually as a partner with the classroom teacher.

In our New Visions Field Trips tours of contemporary art exhibitions and an art-making experience are offered to school groups, kindergarten through 12th grade.

Children Investigate the Environment is a sequential program for 4th grade classrooms that focuses on the study of local natural resources through drawing and expressive writing as taught by artists, poets, and naturalists. The program is an integral part of the Pasadena Unified School District's interactive science curriculum co-developed by CalTech.

Project FLARE: Fun With Language, Arts and Reading is a sequential program that integrates the language arts curriculum of elementary and middle schools with visual arts experiences.

Art Central is a pilot program at Hamilton Elementary School in Pasadena beginning in 2001 in which an Armory faculty member works as a full-time artist-in-residence at the school for an entire year.