WHO WE ARE

The ACLC serves roughly 200 6th-12th grade learners from all over the city of Alameda. Our student population is representative of the general population of Alameda, with slight under representation of Asian learners and an over representation of Caucasian students. Learners are enrolled in the ACLC according to a district run lottery system. Our learners outperform all other students from Alameda high schools and 90% of all California students.

We have ten fully credentialed facilitators, one office manager staff, a full time counselor. We have an active and vibrant parent community that serves on many support and governing committees along with learners and facilitators.

BRIEF HISTORY

The Alameda Community Learning Center was created as a school in which the Graduate Profile of the Alameda Unified School District could live and breathe. The Graduate Profile is a document that was created at a visioning conference held by the AUSD in partnership Arthur Andersen in 1992.

The product of this conference, the Graduate Profile, contains the ideal skills, qualities and work habits of a successful high-school graduate. Arthur Andersen funded the start-up costs for the school and endowed it with state-of-the-art technological resources and facilitator training.

After its first five years, it became apparent to all involved that this school needed to become a Charter School where the economic and educational decisions that determined the fate of the school would be made by an ACLC Governing Board composed of facilitators, parents, learners, community members and a district representative. This charter status allows the school to seek its own grants, determine its own standards, and enact policy that meets the needs of this unique environment. Facilitators, parents and learners are involved in all levels of decision making.

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