{"id":38,"date":"2018-01-19T04:34:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T04:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/?p=38"},"modified":"2018-01-19T04:34:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T04:34:35","slug":"highest-graduation-rate-among-michigan-charters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/highest-graduation-rate-among-michigan-charters\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest Graduation Rate Among Michigan Charters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SA_FacebookCover_v1.0.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SA_FacebookCover_v1.0.jpg 820w, http:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SA_FacebookCover_v1.0-300x124.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SA_FacebookCover_v1.0-768x318.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>\nSummit Academy Achieves Highest Graduation Rate Among Michigan Charters<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>North High School the only charter school in state\u2019s top 50<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ROMULUS, MI \u2014 Summit Academy North High School has the highest graduation rate among charter schools in Michigan, according to new state data released last week.<\/p>\n<p>MLive.com parsed the data and ranked the top 50 Michigan high schools by graduation rate during the 2015-2016 school year. Summit Academy checked in at No. 17 with a graduation rate of 98.58% \u2014 nearly 20% better than the state average of 79.65%.<\/p>\n<p>Summit Academy North is the only charter school in the Top 50. Additionally, it\u2019s one of just three schools in Wayne County overall.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is an extraordinary accomplishment, and a testament to the culture we\u2019ve created here,\u201d said Leann Hedke, Superintendent of Summit Academy. \u201cOur staff takes tremendous pride in fostering a learning environment that works for every one of our students, and prepares them for success both before and after graduation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you graduate from a Summit Academy school, you\u2019re almost certainly going to have a chance to further your education. In each of the past five years, every single Summit Academy North and Summit Academy Flat Rock graduate has been accepted into college. And last year alone, 150 students received at least one scholarship offer.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are universally committed to ensuring that every single one of our students not only\u00a0<\/em>graduates,<em>\u00a0but is accepted into college and earns a college scholarship,\u201d said Hedke. \u201cWe have a number of programs in place to support students in these endeavors, so they have the best possible chance at reaching their respective goals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to a nurturing and inclusive learning environment, Summit Academy\u2019s exemplary graduation and college acceptance rates can be attributed to factors like its comprehensive STEAM curriculum, small classroom sizes, and partnerships with companies like zSpace, a 3D Lab that empowers learning through virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more about Summit Academy, contact Superintendent Leann\u00a0<\/strong>Hedke<strong>\u00a0at lhedke@summit-academy.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit Academy Achieves Highest Graduation Rate Among Michigan Charters North High School the only charter school in state\u2019s top 50 &nbsp; ROMULUS, MI \u2014 Summit Academy North High School has the highest graduation rate among charter schools in Michigan, according to new state data released last week. MLive.com parsed the data and ranked the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summitacademy.com\/district\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}