Academy Goals
  1. Provide a rigorous and relevant curriculum leading to increased student achievement and graduation rates.
  2. Focus on career preparation through rigorous curriculum and industry certification.
  3. Raise student aspiration and commitment to academic achievement and work ethics.
  4. Promote leadership development through participation in Career Student Organizations.
  5. Support the revised graduation requirements by providing creative, applied majors.
  6. Promote dual enrollment and articulated credit so that students may earn postsecondary credit while in high school.
  7. Support the state's economy by meeting industry needs for skilled employees in high-demand occupations.


What Are Career Academies?

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Career academies are small, personalized learning communities within a high school. Students enter the academy through a voluntary process; they must apply and be accepted with parental knowledge and support.

A career academy involves teachers from different subjects working together as a team.

Staff teams, who often share common planning time, work together to implement the key features of the academy and provide students with training in the career field. Students may be grouped together for several periods every day with a core group of teachers. This promotes a family-like atmosphere and results in close student-teacher ties.

A career academy includes the following essential elements:

  • A small learning community supported by a local advisory committee
  • A career theme that includes a college-prep curriculum and lead to industry certification
  • Partnerships with employers, the community, and higher education


By design, these three central elements of a career academy lead to a school that is rigorous and relevant.