Overview
2023/2024 marked Architecture, Construction, and Engineering Charter High School 's (ACE) 14th year as a school.
We are an inclusive and safe school for all Ventura County students looking to attend a 4-year high school with programs across architecture, construction, engineering, and computer programming through an International Baccalaureate Career-related Studies model. ACE Charter High School is a single school LEA and the only traditional day, classroom-based, charter public high school in Ventura County.
The ACE mission is:
The mission and vision of Architecture Construction and Engineering (ACE) Charter High School is to provide a scientific, technical, analytical, and liberal arts-based high school experience from a contextually global mindset and through progressive and collaborative teaching practices.
The mission and vision of Architecture Construction and Engineering (ACE) Charter High School is to provide a scientific, technical, analytical, and liberal arts-based high school experience from a contextually global mindset and through progressive and collaborative teaching practices.
The vision of ACE is:
Inventing the future while honoring the past since 2010.
Inventing the future while honoring the past since 2010.
Through career and technical education program pathways, ACE students explore a rigorous, contextual, project-based curriculum that prepares students for lifelong learning as well as direct entry into college, professional apprenticeship programs, or a technical career.
ACE strives to accomplish these goals through a truly interdisciplinary and global approach that weaves traditional educational practices with cutting-edge and real-world project-based activities.
ACE fosters an educational environment that calls students to be critical thinkers, communicators, collaborators, and creative in their approach to life and leadership within their community. ACE also calls upon teachers to be lifelong learners, while seeking progressive, collaborative, and creative methods to engage and educate the students in the international mindset.
2023/2024 General Information:
ACE currently has 255 students enrolled, and employs 12 full-time teachers, 2 administrative assistants, 1 campus supervisor, 1 guidance counselor, a coordinator of student culture, and 1 principal. ACE works in conjunction with its authorizer, the Oxnard Union High School District, to provide special education services, which equal 2 full-time teacher and 3 full-time paraprofessional, when fully staffed.
ACE's 2023/2024 Student population demographics breakdown consists of 63% Hispanic, 22% white, 6% Filipino, 2% Black/African American, the remaining are spread over several demographic groups. ACE has 54% of our student population eligible for Free/Reduced foods, 13 students are EL students with 26% reclassified as RFEP, and 47 students are special education students (20% of our total student population).
ACE has 4 major pathways, Construction, Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Science. Each pathway is a part of a 4-year sequence of classes, and is authorized as an International Baccalaureate Career-related Studies Programme, which is the first in the state of California and the 2nd in the US to obtain this recognition. ACE has 6 IB Diploma courses, mixed into our core offerings. Our core consists of a full sequence of Math courses, Science courses, Social Science courses, and Spanish as our second language, which includes an IB course as well.
ACE is an independent public charter school whose teachers are represented by the Oxnard Federation of Teachers local 1273 and whose parents are members of the Ventura County PTA.
