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Summit Public Schools is a '' charter management organization'' (CMO) which operates eleven schools, eight in the
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and three in
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. The headquarters is located in
Redwood City, California Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a ...
. Summit is the recipient of grant from the
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.


Schools

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Summit Preparatory Charter High School Summit Preparatory Charter High School also known as Summit Prep, is a college preparatory and charter high school that was founded in 2003. Summit Prep is the first school founded by the charter management organization (CMO) Summit Public Schools ...
in
Redwood City, CA Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a ...
*
Everest Public High School Everest Public High School is a college preparatory, tuition-free, and public charter high school in Redwood City, California, United States. The school, which was modeled after Summit Preparatory Charter High School in Redwood City, opened in A ...
in
Redwood City, CA Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose. Redwood City's history spans its earliest inhabitation by the Ohlone people to being a ...
* Summit Tahoma in South San Jose, CA * Summit K2 in
El Cerrito, CA El Cerrito ( Spanish for "The Little Hill") is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, and forms part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a population of 25,962 according to the 2020 census. El Cerrito was founded by refugee ...
* Summit Shasta in
Daly City, CA Daly City () is the second most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, with population of 104,901 according to the 2020 census. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, and immediately south of San Francisco (sharing its ...
* Summit Tamalpais in
Richmond, CA Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a city council.
* Summit Olympus in Tacoma, WA * Summit Sierra in
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, WA * Summit Atlas in
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, WA Prior schools included Summit Rainier in East San Jose, CA (closed in June 2020) and Summit Denali in Sunnyvale, CA (closed in June 2023).


Summit Learning

The pedagogy employed at Summit schools, dubbed "Summit Learning," is a personalized, project-based learning (PBL) curriculum that puts students "in charge" of their own learning. Courses are built around projects done at students' own paces instead of traditional coursework modules, and teachers focus their energy on tutoring individual students as many grading functions are automated.


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Further reading

* Charter schools in the United States Public education in California Organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area Charter management organizations {{California-school-stub