Accelerated Elementary
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The Accelerated Charter Elementary School (ACES), opened in August of 2004, becoming the first off-campus charter elementary school to be opened as part of The Accelerated School Family. ACES is a dual-language immersion model—providing a 60 percent of the classroom instruction in Spanish and 40 percent in English—in an academically challenging environment that allows children to learn from each other in an integrated setting. ACES is also based on the Reggio Emilia approach, which embraces a child-originated/teacher-framed curriculum.
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History
The History of the Accelerated School began when two young public school teachers, on a basketball court, drew inspiration from the passing of California's Charter School Legislation Act in 1992 and started exchaging ideas and envisioned their own public charter school.
Not long after the two would be pioneers of the Accelerated School crafted the ideals of what their school would be like, they were then joined by a handful of parents, teachers and community leaders to help build on their dream and in spite of the skeptics and the doubts, the group were able to raise the needed initial investment, majority of which was contributed by the Wells Fargo Foundation ($200,000) and the Weingart Foundation ($30,000). Soon after receiving additional resources and support from The Los Angeles Accelerated Schools Center at California State University, Los Angeles, the group were able to receive an unanimous charter approval from the Los Angeles Unified School District.
2004 - The ACES (Accelerated Charter Elementary School) opens with three K-1 classroom in August, becoming the first off-campus charter elementary school to be opened as part of The Accelerated School family
Map & Directions
From I-110 Ca, head east on W Redondo Beach Blvd, then turn right onto the Harbor Fwy N/I-110 N ramp. Merge into I-110 N before taking exit 20A for Martin Luther King Jr BL toward Exposition Park. Turn right at W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd then turn left at S Main St. Finally turn right at E 37th St and into 119 E where the Accelerated Charter Elementary School is located.
For more directions and detailed information on the school location, view the map here.
