Welcome to CHOICE Academy
About CHOICE Academy
- CHOICE Academy provides a small, safe, learning environment, with relevant curriculum and top-notch teachers. We share a family-style school, based on relationships. CHOICE stands for Children Have Options in Choosing Education, and we work closely with our students and their families throughout the middle and high school experience.
- CHOICE is a fully-accredited, credit-bearing, and diploma-granting middle and high school. We provide a small, personalized school environment, with rigorous coursework and high expectations for all of our students. We believe the CHOICE model offers profound advantages for all of our students.
- Students may choose to stay at CHOICE throughout their middle and high school years, or may choose to take advantage of other options during their upper high school years, such as Running Start, the Puget Sound Skills Center, or transferring back to their neighborhood school.
- CHOICE offers traditional-type courses in the morning. In the afternoon there are a few traditional-type electives offered on-site, or families can take advantage of an opportunity to develop, with school staff, a specialized independent elective or physical education program off-site. Independent electives have included ideas such as musical instrument lessons, equestrian riding, dance, or theatre arts.
- CHOICE accepts students at all grade levels based on space availability. Typical entry grades are at the 7th grade for middle school, and 9th grade for high school.
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A note from Principal Sita...
Welcome to Highline Public School Alternative Programs. Our schools and programs are proud high quality educational options supporting the Highline School District’s portfolio of secondary schools. My staff and I are committed to developing small and personalized learning communities which are committed to your child’s educational experiences. Each program is fully accredited with highly qualified teachers and service oriented adults meeting the individual learning needs of all our students.
While our schools and programs serve well over four hundred students each year, no single learning community in Alternative programs has more than two hundred students enrolled. This makes for close knit and supportive school environments where every teacher and counselor knows every student, and family, by Name, Strength and Need, as promised by our superintendent and school board. Our alternative schools and programs serve families with a wide range of special needs and high expectations for the schools that their children attend. Our standards for learning and effective instruction teaching make our schools top notch in ability to provide for those in transition, learning English, or requiring special individualized education services. From online to home schooling support, and progressive parent partnerships, we serve families who need flexibility, specialized instruction, a strong parent and family community, or even credit recovery and reengagement or in transition returning to school for those who have been out of school. Each of our programs is a school of choice in our district and accessible for families across the Highline School District. Our Schools and Programs include: Highline CHOICE Academy – a 7th through 12th grade high performing parent partnership with direct connections to college through Running Start and Career through Puget Sound Skills Center. A Washington State School of Distinction “CHOICE is the best kept secret in Highline.” - Parent ... We believe in all of our students' ability to achieve and excel in their schooling. Our aim is to get every graduate into a quality college or career training opportunity immediately after they receive a diploma. In Highline Alternative Programs we connect with each of our students through personalized college and career counseling and advisement using a state approved curriculum. Our college and career connection center oversees a comprehensive counseling and preparation program for life after high school, attending to every child in our schools. Family engagement and partnership is encouraged and invited by each of our programs and schools. We involve community and shared resources to enrich and enhance the school experience for all the children we teach. Please contact myself, the teachers in programs or our school counselors to see how you can be involved and join us supporting the students of Highline Alternative Programs. -Principal Michael Sita, M.Ed. |
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