What is a Charter School?

According to the Charter School’s Act that was passed by California legislature in 1992, a charter school is a public school that is intended to operate independently of the traditional school district structure in order to provide educators, parents and students a method to accomplish the following:

Improve the learning experience for all students.

Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods.

Present educators with new professional opportunities that allow them to assume responsibility for the learning program at the school site.

Provide parents and students with expanded educational choices within the public school system.

Hold schools accountable for student performance and provide the schools with a method to change from rule-based to performance-based accountability systems.

Provide vigorous competition within the public schools system to stimulate continual improvements in all public schools.

How does a Charter School work?

Vista Real Charter High School uses a Personalized Learning charter school model that allows the learning program to be tailored to each student’s individual needs and interests. Each student focuses on one or two subjects at a time and visits the campus once a week to meet with teachers for instruction and exams. Most of the schoolwork is completed at home.