SuccessTech Academy

SuccessTech Academy
SuccessTech Academy team fields questions at the sixth annual Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition
Address
1440 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland, Ohio, 44114
Information
School type	Public, high school
Founded	2002
School district	Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Superintendent	Eric Gordon
Principal	Sara Kidner
Staff	30 teachers
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	270 (2010-2011)
Language	English
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Royal Blue and Platinum
Mascot	Lion
Nickname	The Royals
Website	Website

SuccessTech Academy is an alternative public high school in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helped to establish the school, which opened to enrollment in the 2002-2003 school year.SuccessTech Academy offers a technology infused high school curriculum with a focus on problem and project based learning.

All 59 students in the school's first senior class (2006-2007) were college-bound.^[1]

As of the 2009-2010 school year, SuccessTech's graduation rate was 94.9%^[2]

Mission Statement

We, the learning family of SuccessTech Academy, will graduate self-directed problem solvers with clear personal, academic, and professional goals focused on responsible citizenship.

School shooting

Main article: SuccessTech Academy shooting

A school shooting occurred on October 10, 2007. A 14-year-old student, Asa Coon, shot two teens and two faculty members at the school. According to Cleveland Division of Police, the student fatally shot himself. The student was reportedly angered over a suspension given to him earlier in the week, and school authorities confirmed he was not supposed to be at school on that day. Police said that the student had entered the school with two guns, one in each hand, and began firing.^[3] According to law enforcement personnel the shootings took place on the third and fourth floor when at that time the lockdown announcement, "Code Blue" was made.

References

↑ SuccessTech Academy has top students
↑ "interactive Local Report Card (iLRC) School Building Questions: SuccessTech Academy". Ohio Department of Education. Retrieved 2007-10-11.
↑ "Five Injured As Ohio School Student Goes On Shooting Spree". Retrieved 2007-10-11.

External links

Coordinates: 41°30′26.2″N 81°41′11.4″W / 41.507278°N 81.686500°W / 41.507278; -81.686500

Cleveland Metropolitan School District High Schools

Neighborhood draw high schools	Carl F. Shuler High School Collinwood High School East Technical High School Campus Glenville High School James Ford Rhodes High School John Adams High School Campus John F. Kennedy Academic Campus John Marshall High School Lincoln-West High School

City-wide draw high schools	Cleveland School of the Arts Main Campus Design Lab Early College Garrett Morgan Science Academy Genesis High School Ginn Academy High Achievement Academy High Tech Academy Jane Addams Business Careers Center John Hay Campus Martin Luther King, Jr. High School Campus Max S. Hayes High School MC2STEM NewTech @ East Technical Campus NewTech @ Garrett Morgan SuccessTech Academy Thomas Jefferson Campus Washington Park Environmental Studies Academy Whitney M. Young Gifted & Talented Leadership Academy

Closed high schools	Aviation High School Central High School East High School South High School West High School West Technical High School

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