ACE

ACE PROGRAM

  Academic Career Education…“A place where our students soar and aim to achieve their educational and career goals.” 

Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide an excellent educational program which enables learners with at-risk circumstances to acquire the skills, knowledge, and personal competence to be successful and become responsible citizens.

The Academic Career Education Program (ACE Program) is a web-based curriculum program that provides student learners the opportunity to achieve their secondary educational goals as well an opportunity to achieve vocational and technical certifications. It is an alternative choice school that provides high school students an alternative way of achieving academic success.

It provides an individualized education experience as well to meet the needs of a variety of learners.  The ACE program utilizes EdOption’s Stars Suite as its curriculum base for students as well as providing teachers a tool to guide their students in achieving their High School Graduation requirements.  Edoption’s Star Suite is designed to provide all students who desire original course credit, credit recovery, and academic acceleration. The students can have the flexibility they need to connect with teachers and curriculum and to grow the skills necessary to succeed.

Most importantly, EdOption’s Stars Suite courses are created using a stringent, research-based development process that starts with a review of state academic standards to determine required learning outcomes.  However, the ACE Program believe teachers play the most important role in the learning process, along with EdOption’s Stars Suite, it is the best tool to strengthen the student-teacher relationship.

Finally, the ACE Program goal is to provide a comprehensive, web-based solution featuring adaptive technology and a rigorous curriculum designed to attract all types of student learners.

About ACE PROGRAM

·         All students will be provided differentiated instruction based upon the individual students’ needs.

·         It is an option for students who are considered at-risk and have failed to succeed in a traditional school setting.

·         As an option to Florida Virtual School, ACE program offers a compatible web-based distance learning curriculum to students who do not perform their best in a traditional school setting.

·         It also provides teacher led remediation instruction for all students who have not passed the FCAT.  

ACE School Criteria

·         You must be 9^th grade thru 12th grade and no longer attending regular high school.

·         16 & 17 year old students MUST provide a copy of withdrawn form from his/her previous school. Student will not enroll without the proper documentation.  It must be signed by the School Principal/or his designee, student and parent/guardian, if required.

·         The student who is over-age for current grade or has been retained.

·         The student who is considered at-risk for dropping out of school; student has low achievement test (FCAT) scores.

·         The student who has failing grades or grades not commensurate with documented ability levels.

·         The student who has been retained at least one year /or behind their cohort group.

·         The student who has high absenteeism.

·         The student who has performed successfully in an alternative educational program and wishes to remain enrolled in such a program.

·         The student who needs to make-up credits in order to graduate from high school.

·         **The student who are recommended to be placed into the Alternative Education Program in lieu of expulsion.

Student Progression

The students will be enrolled and assigned in a 9^th and 10^th grade /or 11^th and 12^th grade program based upon the number of credits earned and their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). ACE Promotion Criteria for students are as follows:

·         To be Promoted to 10^th Grade, a student must earn at least 4 credits and must include one English credit (Eng I)

·         To be promoted to 11^th Grade, a student must earn at least 10 credits and must include two English credits (Eng I & II) and two Math credits (Alg I, Alg 1-A, Geometry etc ;)

·         To be promoted to 12^th Grade, a student must earn at least 17 credits and must include three English credits (Eng I, II, & III), two Math credits (Alg I, Alg 1-A, Geometry etc;) and at least a 1.8 Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA)