Mobile Charter School Given High Marks

Mobile Charter School Given High Marks: ACCEL Day and Evening Academy on Cottage Hill Road in Mobile has seen success in its four years of operation and is surviving in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, BusinessAlabama recently reported. One of only four charter schools (and the first established) in Alabama, ACCEL serves high school students in grades nine to 12 from Mobile, Baldwin and Washington counties. Superintendent Jeremiah Newell explained its focus on hands-on and group projects, and an individualized, smaller-class-size approach. It doubled the number of graduates in its second year and continued the increase in its third. In 2019, 92 students graduated, 89% of whom were accepted into college, entered the military or joined the workforce. ACCEL has been doing well enough that the Alabama Public Charter School Commission recently allowed it to charter a middle school for grades six to 12. It plans to begin that school next year with a population of 300 students, then grow to 780 pupils over the next four years.