Our mission is to provide a new path for students across North Georgia to earn an accredited High School Diploma in a student-centered, self-paced, evening public high school. Our Beliefs:
-Students learn in different ways and learn best when provided with a choice of successful approaches to support their learning styles.
-Students learn best when they are actively engaged in an individualized,
self-paced curriculum.
-Students learn more when they are responsible for their learning and behavior.
-Each student is a valued individual with unique physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs.
-Individual tutoring strengthens teacher-student relationships and facilitates student learning.
-Students are more successful when teachers perform the functions of motivator, facilitator, counselor, and tutor.
-Student learning is demonstrated by mastery of essential knowledge and skills.
-A low student-teacher ratio increases student learning.
-Learning is enhanced by positive relationships and mutual respect between staff and students.
-A safe and orderly environment promotes student learning.
-The commitment to continuous improvements is imperative for the school to enable students to become confident, self-direct, lifelong learners. Statistical Data:
-Students from 34 counties have been served.
-Students from age 14 to age 64 years have been served.
-Mountain Education has helped to decrease the seven-county collaborative dropout rate from 7.6% to 4.1%.
-Each year 25% to 33% of collaborative high schools’ graduates have made up failed classes at Mountain Education and have graduated on time with their peers.
-Mountain Education has increased the number of diplomas awarded from 3 in 1994, the first year of operation, to 500+ in the 2024 school year alone.
