Our Vision
Students will graduate trilingual (proficient in English, Spanish and Coding), with the confidence and competence to matriculate into four-year universities, and become global entrepreneurs and leaders.
Our mission is to ensure all students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students’ rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active participants in their own success.
The educational experience for students in ELITE Public Schools is designed to ensure that students meet rigorous academic standards while being exposed to curricular and extracurricular offerings that prepare them to enter 4 year colleges and universities, and become global leaders. To be prepared for this complex and changing world, ELITE students need agency, which we define as both the inclination and the ability to act, to both proactively and reactively engage with their world.
Being educated in the 21st century demands nothing less than global citizenship. The world ELITE students will face when they graduate looks very different from the world today. The world is increasingly global and interconnected, requiring interdisciplinary, knowledgeable global citizens who can negotiate and question justice and morality while grappling with the most complex problems facing our world, including climate change, economic inequities, and international conflict.
Our Values
ELITE Public Schools stands for Equipping Leaders [through] Innovation, Technology, and Engineering.
Entrepreneurial Skills: Students develop personal characteristics including interpersonal, critical thinking and creative skills, as well as, practical knowledge through engagement in quality learning, social development activities, and extra curricular experiences that cultivate leadership skills.
Language: Classrooms are language-enriched environments where students develop trilingualism. Student’s languages and cultures are respected, honored, and celebrated, through culturally-responsive literature. Students demonstrate organizational skills and mastery of content knowledge through writing assignments and oral presentations. Speaking, reading and writing are equally important literacy skills.
Innovation: ELITE students are encouraged to imagine, create, and share for the purpose of inventing, shifting from consumption to production, promoting collaboration over independence and engagement over isolation. ELITE students will be competitive and have the confidence to win, not only in academic pursuits, but also in sports and other advanced activities. Students understand the connections between and among all cultures and races, and learn to appreciate their own heritage and language, as well as, those of other students and adults. ELITE students graduate with a high school diploma, and a specialized certificate, or an Associates of Arts (AA) degree.
Technology: ELITE students develop digital literacy and civic responsibility in an environment where students have access to high quality technology and instructional materials.
Engineering: ELITE students study engineering, in various forms. They utilize their enhanced understanding of math, science and technology to solve complex problems, in a fun and challenging way, while demonstrating advanced reading and writing fluency, computational and problem solving skills.
