APLUS+ Member Schools

Among the more than 150 California public charter schools that offer students an alternative learning model to a traditional, full-time classroom-based approach, APLUS+ member charter schools stand out as distinguished in their commitment to the Personalized Learning model and to high standards of education excellence and fiscal and operational accountability.

There are currently a total of 46 APLUS+ Network Personalized Learning charter schools in California, collectively serving more than 30,000 K-12 students using the innovative Personalized Learning model of education!

Find an APLUS+ Personalized Learning school near you!

Click on the following regions:

Upper Northern California

Lower Northern California

Central California

Upper Southern California

Lower Southern California

As a condition of membership in the APLUS+ Personalized Learning Network Association, APLUS+ member schools must pledge and demonstrate their commitment to education excellence and fiscal accountability, and to fulfilling the basic principle characteristics of the Personalized Learning educational model for their students.

APLUS+ may be the only school members association in public education that requires that its members demonstrate their commitment to high standards of accountability as a condition of association membership!

Education Excellence and Fiscal and Operational Accountability

Demonstration of high standards of education excellence and fiscal and operational accountability by APLUS+ Member schools may be achieved through the following tangible measures:

WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) Accreditation

Meeting fiscal accountability requirements for non-classroom classified charter schools as reviewed and approved by the California Department of Education (CDE), the Advisory Commission on Charter Schools (ACCS), and the California State Board of Education (SBE)

Conducting and fulfilling annual independent fiscal and programmatic audit requirements

Parent/Student Satisfaction Survey Results

Demonstrating consistent student academic achievement results through:
STAR Testing Results
API Growth Target Scores
API Ranks
AYP Results
CAHSEE (California High School Exit Exam) results
Individual Student Assessment Evaluations by grade level state standards

Distinguished Awards and Recognitions

Principle Characteristics of the Personalized Learning Model

While variations do exist in how the Personalized Learning model is applied within each school to accommodate the needs of each school's student population and community, all APLUS+ Network Personalized Learning school members are founded upon the comprehensive combination of several basic principles of education excellence. These basic principles are founded upon the latest education research as to how students learn successfully and may be summarized as follows:

Educational Vision and Philosophy

• The Personalized Learning school supports learning programs and opportunities in multiple learning environments both within and beyond the classroom in accordance with a more “university-style” model, including traditional classroom-based instruction with smaller class sizes; labs; one-on-one learning; distance learning; home-based learning; and community-based learning, with a variety of curriculum resources and learning delivery tools and methodologies.
• The Personalized Learning School provides individualized learning programs tailored according to the needs of each student, and facilitates development of each student's learning program involving an active partnership between the student, parent or guardian, California certificated teacher, and school.
• The Personalized Learning School supports one or more learning facilities that accommodate a variety of instruction-related activities, which typically include but are not limited to classes, labs, computer-based learning, tutoring, resource library, and testing and assessment.
• The Personalized Learning School supports students to fulfill their daily attendance ( ADA ) requirements not solely through seat time, but rather by working as a team (teacher, student and parent) to develop meaningful and varied learning assignments and learning experiences.

Parental Involvement

• The Personalized Learning School fosters, wherever possible, the close involvement of each student's parent or guardian in the student's learning development and progress. In as much as Personalized Learning requires meaningful, daily, ongoing parent leadership in their child's education, the Personalized Learning School acknowledges and supports the primacy and prerogative of the parents' role in their children's education.
• The Personalized Learning School supports and/or facilitates parent training and developmental programs that include instruction in student learning style and needs assessment, teaching methodologies, and choices in curricula. 

Curriculum

• The Personalized Learning School supports a variety of curriculum choices in both core and elective subject areas to accommodate the individual learning needs, styles, challenges, interests and aspirations of its students, and to ensure progress towards attaining California State Standards.

Assessment

• The Personalized Learning School assesses each student's educational needs through both formal and informal evaluation processes. These processes integrate the California State Content Standards; each student's learning style; learning pace; learning strengths; personal, family, and social challenges; and learning interests, passions, and aspirations.
• The Personalized Learning School integrates a recognized and reliable assessment program to diagnose each student's academic proficiency in core subject areas upon enrollment and either at the conclusion of each school year or upon disenrollment. Students are regularly assessed throughout the year to monitor progress in each core subject area.
• The school incorporates “multiple measurement” tools to measure and report both individual and school-wide learning progress, which may include the following:

1. On-going learning records (portfolios)
2. Report Cards
3. Work Portfolios
4. Assessment and accountability programs
5. API/ASAM/AYP scores

Personnel

• The Personalized Learning School provides every student a supervising teacher with a valid California Teaching Credential to oversee each student's learning development and/or to teach core subject areas in classroom-based or lab-based learning environments. 
• The Personalized Learning School provides teacher training and developmental programs that include instruction in working with parents, learning styles, needs assessment, teaching methodologies, and choices in curricula.

Accountability

• The Personalized Learning School serving secondary-level students ensures program quality assurance by fulfilling all requirements for Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) candidacy and accreditation.
• The Personalized Learning School serving only elementary-level students ensures quality assurance by such methods that may include but are not limited to WASC accreditation, Program Quality Review, or Charter School Development Review.
• The Personalized Learning School conducts annual, independent, fiscal and programmatic audits to demonstrate the high quality, accountability, and sound management practices of its business operations and educational processes.
• The Personalized Learning School publishes its School Accountability Report Card and actively seeks community involvement for improvement.

APLUS+ NETWORK CHARTER SCHOOL MEMBERS

The APLUS+ Personalized Learning Network Association is honored to feature here the distinguished Personalized Learning schools who are active APLUS+ network members. Please select any of the Personalized Learning charter schools listed on this sidebar to learn more about each program.

If you are interested in exploring enrollment in a Personalized Learning school for your child, our network schools serve students who reside in the following counties in California (grade levels served in parentheses). Click on the school name on the sidebar or below to read more about their Personalized Learning program.


Upper Northern California

Academy of Personalized Learning (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Redding, CA.
Serving shasta county

Alder Grove (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Eureka, CA.
Serving Humboldt county

Chico Country Day School (grades K-8)
Administrative Offices: Chico, CA.
Serving Butte county

CORE Butte (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Chico, CA.
Serving Butte county

eScholar Academy (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Red Bluff, CA.
Serving Tehama, Shasta, Butte, Trinity, Mendocino, Glenn, and Plumas counties.

Golden Eagle Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Weed, CA.
Serving Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, and Modoc counties.

Plumas Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Quincy, CA.
Serving Plumas, Butte, Lassen, and Sierra counties.

Shasta Secondary Home School (grades 6-12)
Administrative Offices: Redding, CA.
Serving Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Siskiyou, Lassen, and Plumas counties.

Stellar Charter School (grades K-8)
Administrative Offices: Redding, CA.
Serving Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Siskiyou, Lassen, and Plumas counties

Stellar Secondary Charter High School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Redding, CA.
Serving Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Siskiyou, Lassen, and Plumas counties

Lower Northern California

Camptonville Academy (CORE @ TCA) (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Nevada City, CA.
Serving Yuba, Butte, Nevada, Placer, and Sutter counties.

Circle of Independent Learning (COIL) (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Fremont, CA.
Serving Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Santa Clara counties.

CORE Placer (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Colfax, CA.
Serving Placer, Nevada, and Sacramento counties

FAME Public Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Newark, CA
Serving Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco and Stanislaus counties.

Forest Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Nevada City, CA.
Serving Nevada, Placer, Sierra, and Yuba counties.

Horizon Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Lincoln, CA.
Serving Placer, Nevada, El Dorado, Sacramento, Yuba and Sutter counties

Pacific Coast Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Watsonville, CA.
Serving Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.

Pathways Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Santa Rosa, CA.
Serving Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Solano and Lake counties.

Twin Ridges Home Study Charter School (grades K-8)
Administrative Offices: Nevada City, CA.
Serving Nevada, Placer, Sierra, and Yuba counties.

Visions In Education Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Carmichael, CA.
Serving Sacramento, Amador, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Placer, San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, and Yolo counties.

Central California

Carter G. Woodson Charter School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Fresno, CA.
Serving Fresno county

Connecting Waters Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Waterford, CA.
Serving Stanislaus, San Joaquin, Alameda. Calaveras, Mariposa, Merced, Santa Clara, and Tuolumne counties.

Crescent View West Charter High School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Fresno, CA.
Serving Fresno county.

Delta Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Tracy, CA.
Serving San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties

Glacier High School Charter (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Oakhurst, CA.
Serving Madera and Merced counties

Gold Rush Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Sonora, CA.
Serving Stanislaus county

Merced Scholars Charter School (grades 6-12)
Adminstrative Offices: Merced, CA.
Serving Merced county

Sierra Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Fresno, CA.
Serving Alpine, Mono, Madera , Fresno , Inyo, and Tuolumne counties

W.E.B. Dubois Charter School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Fresno, CA.
Serving Fresno county


Upper Southern California

Alta Vista Public Charter School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Hesperia, CA.
Serving San Bernardino county.

Carden Virtual Academy Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Rancho Cucamonga, CA.
Serving San Bernardino county

Desert Sands Charter High School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Lancaster, CA.
Serving Los Angeles, San Bernardino counties.

Golden Valley Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Ventura, CA.
Serving Ventura, Kern, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara counties.

Somis Academy Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Camarillo, CA.
Serving Ventura county

Vista Real Charter High School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Ventura, CA.
Serving Ventura county

Lower Southern California

Bayshore Prep Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: San Marcos, CA.
Serving San Diego county

Classical Academy Escondido (grades K-8)
Administrative Offices: Escondido, CA.
Serving San Diego county.

Classical Academy High School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: Escondido, CA.
Serving San Diego county.

Classical (Coastal) Academy Oceanside (grades K-8)
Administrative Offices: Oceanside, CA.
Serving San Diego county.

Dehesa Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Escondido, CA.
Serving San Diego, Orange, Riverside and Imperial counties.

Diego Hills Charter High School (grades 9-12)
Administrative Offices: San Diego, CA.
Serving San Diego, CA

Greater San Diego Academy (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Jamul, CA.
Serving San Diego, Imperial, and Riverside counties

Julian Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Julian, CA.
Serving Orange, Imperial, Riverside, and San Diego counties.

Pacific View Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Oceanside, CA.
Serving San Diego, Imperial, and Riverside counties.

River Springs Charter School (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: Temecula, CA.
Serving Riverside, Orange, San Diego and San Bernardino counties.

The Learning Choice Academy (grades K-12)
Administrative Offices: San Diego, CA.
Serving San Diego county