SUCCESS Academy

Newsweek recently released their list of the top 5000 STEM schools in the United States and SUU SUCCESS Academy made the list! Newsweek partnered with STEM.org to rank the top STEM High Schools. We ranked at 3976! Only 24 Utah Schools made the list. We're proud to be on it!

Niche.com released their 2020 school year "Best School Districts in Utah" awards. SUCCESS Academy was ranked SECOND! We also rank SECOND for the Safest School District in Utah, and FOURTH in Utah School Districts with the Best Teachers. Rankings are based on several criteria including geographic information, parent and student reviews, and public data sources. As always, we want to thank our amazing teachers for being so amazing! They're a huge reason we're so SUCCESSful!

KSL news published an article on some of the reasons St. George is America's fastest growing city. One of the five reasons listed is because of the education opportunities. It lists SUCCESS Academy as one of those opportunities. The article states, "Schools like Success Academy are changing high school and pre-college academics for the better with early college courses to help students succeed". Read the full article here.

Niche.com recently released their Best School Districts in Utah. SUCCESS Academy is SECOND! We received A rankings in the Academics, Teachers, College Prep, and Health and Safety categories. In fact, our teachers are so great, we received the #2 ranking in the state for "Districts with the Best Teachers in Utah"! (We know this already! Glad the state does as well.) We also ranked fifth for safest school district! See how Niche calculates their rankings here.

The high school Sterling Scholars from Utah's Southwest region were named Thursday, with students from 18 schools in five counties gathering for a regional competition at Utah Tech University in St. George. The Sterling Scholar program, which since 1962 has recognized academic excellence in Utah high schools, was started by the Deseret News to encourage students to succeed. Top seniors from each school are recognized in 15 separate academic categories, and then can go on to compete in a regional competition and win scholarships and earn recognition. SUCCESS students Lyle Prince and William Heaton won for their schools.

Our own Max Brown is one of only 26 students to receive the Daniel's scholarship in the state of Utah this year! Daniels Scholars may attend any accredited nonprofit college or university in the United States, and the program covers the expenses that remain after all other scholarships and financial aid have been applied. It is an incredible scholarship and is often based on character as well as merit.

Since 1962, high school seniors have been honored for their academic excellence by being named Sterling Scholars. According to the Sterling Scholar website, “a Sterling Scholar is a high school senior who is publicly recognized and awarded for the pursuit of excellence in scholarship, leadership and citizenship in the State of Utah.” Two of our own students, William Heaton (music), and Lyle Prince (mathematics) were recipients of this prestigious award.

SUUeverywhere features past students of SUU who are really making a name for themselves. Our own past student, Matt Wilde, is featured and for good reason. Matt made huge contributions to SUU and currently works at Amazon as an engineer. He was also featured in the SUU alumni magazine (May 2018).

Former SUCCESS Student Meera Kansagra was awarded by Utah Business as a "20 in their 20's"! These are young entrepreneurs taking the business world by storm at a young age. Meera grew up in India, moving to the United States with her family as a child. But she did not let her unfamiliar surroundings hold her back – she set a goal to graduate early from high school and SUCCESS. Because of that, she completed her Master’s in Accountancy at 20 years old. She is currently the assistant controller at RizePoint (accounting) and has implemented an automated system for collections.

The U.S. News rankings include data on more than 22,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Schools were awarded gold, silver or bronze medals based on their performance on state assessments and how well they prepare students for college. SUCCESS is Nationally Ranked!

The Cedar Youth City Council takes part in local government in Cedar City and does a a lot of volunteer work and planning. Jasmine Tapia and Gracia Allen of SUCCESS Academy participated in this year's Council. We're very proud of them.

Several SUCCESS students were able to attend SheTech on May 8th at SUU. SheTech, directed by Dr. Shalini Kesar at SUU, exposes high school girls to technology through workshops with tech companies, competitive problem-solving events and networking activities. This day-long event includes hands-on workshops in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The ultimate goal of SheTech is to expose high school girls to technology in a fun atmosphere, allow them to connect with STEM role models, and to learn about interesting professional and educational opportunities in those fields.

Sage scores are IN. SUCCESS Academy received top scores once again. SUU SUCCESS is THIRD in Utah and UTU is FIFTH in the state for MATHEMATICS! SUU SUCCESS placed SECOND and UT SUCCESS placed SIXTH in SCIENCE! And we placed in the top ten in English as well! Our students are brilliant hard-workers.

Newsweek Magazine named SUCCESS Academy a top high school (31 out of 500 high schools) in America for excellence in a low income area. They base scores on schools who prepare students for college while overcoming economic obstacles. Newsweek also ranked SUCCESS Academy 68 out of 500 for top high school overall!

This is an interesting article in the Salt Lake Tribune that names SUCCESS Academy specifically and talks about how school operations are performed. It talks about the advantages and disadvantages of having other companies run operations for the charter schools.

For all the hard work, long hours in the gym, and all the stress, the payoff finally arrived for a SUCCESS Academy athlete. Swimmer Nathan Wallace – who holds a truckload of school records – has signed his National Letter of Intent and will be joining the swim team at BYU.

Niche is a website that independently ranks and reviews schools and compares them by state, city, school type, etc. They ranked SUCCESS as 13th high school in the state! (Out of over 200 high schools in Utah!)

Abigail Strasmann, a freshman at SUCCESS Academy conducts a science experiment and tries to find out how animals can lower anxiety in students. Find out how she performed her experiments. Great ideas from a great student!

Newsweek's "Beating the Odds" list identifies schools that prepare their students for college while also overcoming obstacles posed by students at an economic disadvantage. SUCCESS Academy is first on that list!

Newsweek ranks America's high schools based on a broad range of data to determine which institutions do the best job of preparing students for college. SUCCESS Academy is ranked 18th in the entire country!

According to the latest SAGE results, SUCCESS Academy is the fourth top high school in Utah for language arts scores.

This video story features one of our own students, Hector, and talks about his experience with SUCCESS Academy and how that has helped him and his family.

This news story features SUCCESS Academy in the news. SUCCESS Academy has programs at Utah Tech University and Southern Utah University.

Newsweek magazine names local high school as best in the nation.

SUU is one of the schools that hosts SUCCESS Academy. Their story is one of many for this school that is receiving nation wide recognition.

Now that the year is over, the results are in. Out of Utah's 129 high schools, SUCCESS ranks #4! Congratulations SUCCESS! This year's report cards for Utah's schools show about the same distribution of A, B, C, D and F grades as last year, but with several new calculation metrics, according to data released Monday by the Utah State Office of Education.

Of all the high schools in Utah, only six received an A grade this year from the State of Utah, and SUCCESS is one of them! This is the direct result of the type of students we have here at SUCCESS.

Like their traditional public school peers, students at Utah’s charter schools struggled to reach new performance benchmarks in math, science and English. Of the 89 charter schools listed in SAGE testing data released Monday by the Utah Office of Education, 34 had proficiency rates higher than the state average in all three test subjects, 36 were below the state average in all subjects and 19 were both above and below the state average, depending on individual test subjects. SAGE tests show proficiency in math, science and English varies widely depending on students’ prevailing background.

SUCCESS is one of the best-scoring high schools in Utah, according to the state's criterion-referenced tests, or CRT. The CRT tests gauge student performance and shows which schools are performing better than others in scores. The rankings are based on the percentages of students who have passed CRT tests proficiently. The Deseret News averaged language arts, math and science scores together weighed by total students tested in each category to get an overall percentage. Only schools with 150 students or more are included in the list.