Mountain Education Charter High School (MECHS) is a collaborative effort of Fannin, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Pickens, Towns, Union and White County School Systems. The MECHS collaborative organization also operates sites in Habersham and Stephens Counties. We are
Our Beliefs:
-Students learn in different ways and learn best when provided with a choice of successful approaches to support their learning styles.
-Students learn more when they are actively engaged in an individualized, self-paced curriculum.
-Students learn more when they are responsible for their learning and behavior.
-Each student is a valued individual with unique physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs.
-Individual tutoring strengthens teacher-student relationships and facilitates student learning.
-Students are more successful when teachers perform the functions of motivator, facilitator, counselor and tutor.
-Student learning is demonstrated by mastery of essential knowledge and skills.
-A low student-teacher ratio increases student learning.
-Learning is enhanced by positive relationships and mutual respect between staff and students.
-A safe and orderly environment promotes student learning.
-The commitment to continuous improvements is imperative for the school to enable students to become confident, self-direct, lifelong learners.
Statistical Data:
-Students from 34 counties have been served.
-Students from age 14 to age 64 years have been served.
-The MECHS has helped to decrease the seven-county collaborative dropout rate from 7.6% to 4.1%.
-Each year 25% to 33% of collaborative high schools’ graduates have made up failed classes in the MECHS and have graduated on time with their peers.
-The MECHS has increase the number of diplomas awarded from three in 1994, the first year of operation, to 235 in 2011.
The mission of Mountain Education Charter High School is to provide a second chance opportunity to students across North Georgia to earn an accredited High School Diploma in a student-centered, self-paced, evening public high school.
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