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​ABOUT  ACORN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

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ACORN Community High School was founded in 1996 and established to provide a personalized and challenging learning environment to the students of New York City.  
At ACHS, we prepare our students to become leaders of the 21st Century. We believe through rigorous, real-world and collaborative educational experiences, our students will be ready to embark on their college and career journey. Our mission is to provide a global learning environment of high expectations that is self-empowering.  Through small learning communities, all scholars at ACHS are able to collaborate, question and transform into life-long learners and refined critical thinkers.  As we empower the ACHS community to transform, Success is the only option.  

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Early College Initiative

​Our early college initiative is an opportunity for students, families, school leaders and teachers to build and sustain a college thinking/college going culture by finetuning essential skills students need in order to be prepared for college. The goal of the Early College Initiative is to seamlessly transition students from grade to grade, school to school and system to sector.   Through this initiative, our students are offered early college courses through CUNY and Long Island University and can receive an Associate's Degree while in high school.

​AVID

AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a college bound program for the academic middle. AVID provides proven methodologies to assist students in meeting the demands of a four year college setting. Developed and refined by exceptional middle and high school teachers for almost three decades, the AVID curriculum is based on rigorous standards. Driven by WICOR (writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading), this methodology holds true in providing a vehicle for students to think critically and independently. AVID and ACORN have been in partnership for over 14 years and will continue to partner to prepare college ready students.
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                Additional   Programs 

• ONEGOAL
• BAM
• ESI
• STEM
  

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Partnerships

• ​STEM
• AP FOR ALL
• COLLEGE ACCESS FOR ALL​
• MAGEAR EVER COLLEGE
• AP FOR ALL

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