Summit Public Schools

Ten years ago, a group of parents in Silicon Valley came together to reimagine the public high school experience. This was a bold move given that less than half of all high school students in Silicon Valley graduate with the basic requirements to attend a four-year college, and more than one in five drops out of high school altogether. The opportunity gap between those with a post-secondary degree and those without continues to rapidly grow. And yet, Summit Public Schools’ founding parents imagined a school that could prepare every single student for college and career success.

Today, Summit Public Schools is a leading charter management organization serving diverse communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington State. It operates seven schools enrolling 2,000 students, with more schools set to open each of the next five years. Summit’s mission is to ensure that every student has the opportunity to not only attend, but succeed in, a four-year college or university.  Summit is growing to provide its high-performing school model to more families and communities. 

For ten years, Summit has provided an innovative, personalized education to its students. Its accomplishments include:

• Its schools consistently ranking among the best in California, with its flagship school ranked among the top 100 best high schools in the nation.
• Its flagship school being named as one of the nation’s Top 10 Miracle schools.
• 96 percent of Summit students being accepted to at least one four-year college or university.
• Double the national average of Summit graduates on track to complete college within six years.
• A world-class teaching faculty coming to Summit from the nation’s top teacher preparation programs, including Stanford, Harvard, Columbia and UC Berkeley.