ACT Academy Charter High School (grades 9–12) has a strong focus on academic skills, individualized learning, leadership development, and community engagement.
Our mission:
to prepare students both morally and intellectually for their future, creating leaders with both intelligence and character—what Martin Luther King Jr. described as a “true education.”
ACT Academy Offers:
- College preparatory culture with a career focus and an emphasis on critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity
- Project-based learning to engage and empower students to succeed
- Two free intensive retreats: Leadership Seminar in the Fall and Social Change Summit in the Spring housed at a Pennsylvania college
- Personalized instruction, customized using the latest educational technology
- Combination of live online instruction and independent work; teacher monitored and adapted for student progress and needs
- Opportunity to work locally with other students to design and implement solutions to community problems
- Personal support from a virtual tutor and advisor
- Free laptop, printer
- Internet subsidy