Admissions

We are a New Century High School, and therefore have a limited unscreened policy for student admission. Priority is given to students who attend informational meetings like the Open Houses or high school fairs; we do not select students based on their grades. We will be participating in the citywide high school application process. If you are interested in attending this school, please remember to put program code #Q76A on your high school application form.

For more information about the NYC Department of Education’s high school application process, please visithttp://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/

high_school_admissions.htm.

Expectations

The Civic Leadership Academy is a community working together to ensure the growth and success of all our students. We believe that by making our expectations clear, everyone in our community has a common understanding of the beliefs and goals of the school. We are guided by our core values of Commitment to Learning, Commitment to Community, and Empowerment and our expectations reflect these values. They are:

COMMITMENT TO LEARNING

• Come to school on time.
• Come to school prepared to learn.
• Engage actively and appropriately.
• Ask questions for clarity.
• Share your learning with others.

II. COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY

• Respect all members of our school community.
• Meet or exceed the expectations of our community.
• Contribute to the learning of others.
• Contribute to the growth of our school and larger community.
• Participate in school events and activities.

III. EMPOWERMENT

• Own your actions.
• Take responsibility and accept consequences for your actions.
• Push your learning – View mistakes as learning opportunities.
• Voice your opinion respectfully.
• Take responsibility for your learning and development – Seek help from peers, teachers, and other school community members when needed.

Civic Leadership Academy Graduation Requirements

• Pass all your core classes with satisfactory or excellent evaluations.
• Maintain an attendance rate of 92%.
• Maintain a portfolio of your best work each year, including samples of your weekly goal setting and reflections about your goal attainment. Anyone examining the portfolio should be able to see how you are progressing in your learning and achieving your goals as outlined through your plans.
• Complete all the courses required for high school graduation with a Regents with Distinction Diploma. You will be able to take and pass the following Regents: English, United States History, Global Studies, Algebra, Algebra II, Living Environment, and Earth Science.
• Show evidence of the college level courses you explored or took.
• Complete your College and Career Portfolio. You will include your college plan, a timeline which indicates your completion of all the requirements of your college applications, as well grant or scholarship applications. You will also include a reflection paper about the career you explored through service learning, a self-evaluation of your experience, and the evaluation of your off-site supervisor
• Complete all service learning requirements:
  • Investigate and present a yearly Service Learning research paper or proposal on a community need that you have identified.
  • Artifacts from your service learning projects, like a copy of a PowerPoint presentation of a proposal that you presented to the Community Advisory Board.
  • Reflection about your service learning experiences, which can include journals, reflection papers, self-evaluations and supervisor evaluations.