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Welcome to Higher Learning Academy!

Mission

All HLA students will acquire knowledge, concepts, and skills to succeed in their choice of college and career in order to positively contribute to both their local and global communities.

Vision

To prepare our students for the competitive global economy, HLA will provide a safe learning environment that fosters students’ risk-taking, inquiry and independent thinking skills.

HLA is a Charter School

Charter schools are public schools of choice that operate with freedom from many of the guidelines that apply to traditional public schools. Charter schools must still comply with state and federal mandated laws and programs. Charter schools are unique as they dictate the way they will follow these mandated laws and programs. This is done through each school’s individual charter petition. This document establishes each individual school’s performance contract detailing the school’s mission and vision, programs offered, goals for academic success, scholars served, methods of assessment, and fiscal sustainability. The length of the time for which HLA’s charter is granted permission to operate in California is 5 years (we are up for renewal in 2024). Charter schools are accountable to their sponsor, which in our case is Twin Rivers Unified School District, to produce positive academic results and adhere to their granted charter petition. HLA operates under the supervision of Gateway Community Charters School District.

Academic Program

HLA is a public charter school serving scholars in Kindergarten through 8th grade. HLA is a school of Gateway Community Charters and overseen by the GCC governing board and Superintendent/CEO. HLA challenges scholars with a rigorous, college preparatory curriculum. Both the elementary and middle school curricula align to Common Core State Standards and all other adopted state standards. Scholars learn 21st Century skills that are incorporated into the International Baccalaureate (IB) framework. HLA is seeking certification for both the primary and middle years programs as an IB world school. We are proud to announce that on April 1^st, 2019 our primary years programme (PYP) received official candidate status and in the spring of 2020 our middle years programme (MYP) applied for official candidate status. Additionally HLA received our three year WASC accreditation in February 2020 and we have accreditation status through June 30, 2023.