The Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment (ACE) is a

public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

high school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...

in SeaTac,

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. It is one of two

small schools The small schools movement, also known as the Small Schools Initiative, in the United States of America holds that many high schools are too large and should be reorganized into smaller, autonomous schools of no more than 400 students, and optimally ...

at the

Tyee Educational Complex Tyee High School, formerly Tyee Educational Complex, is a public high school campus located in SeaTac, Washington, United States. It was founded as Tyee High School, a single public high school, in 1962. It is operated by the Highline School Distr ...

, along with

Global Connections High School Global Connections High School was a public high school in SeaTac, Washington. It was one of three small schools at the Tyee Educational Complex, along with the Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment and Odyssey-The Essential School. It was foun ...

. It was founded in 2005 when Tyee High School converted into these two schools, and accredited individually in 2006. It is operated by the

Highline School District Highline Public Schools (HPS) is a List of school districts in Washington, public school district in King County, Washington, King County, headquartered in Burien, Washington. As of October 2007, it served 17,331 students and had 997 teachers, an ...

. The school's enrollment is 410, as required by the

Coalition of Essential Schools The Coalition of Essential Schools is a US organization created to further a type of whole-school reform originally envisioned by founder Ted Sizer in his book, ''Horace's Compromise.'' The group began in 1984 with twelve schools and grew to 600 m ...

in the conditions for the conversion grant. On the complex, ACE occupies the classroom portions of the 700 building, which excludes the gymnasiums and locker rooms. ACE combines with the other two Tyee schools to compete in athletics.

References

External links

Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment on Highline School District site

Educational institutions established in 2005 High schools in King County, Washington Public high schools in Washington (state) 2005 establishments in Washington (state) {{Washington-school-stub