PACSP Subgrantees

2021

Bear Creek Community Charter School was organized in 2001 following the local public school district’s decision to close a small, high-performing elementary school that primarily served three rural, mountain-top communities.

2022

The Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship (PHCSE) is a K-8 public school located in the Pittsburgh region, serving an 86% black student population who receives all meals free. Since 2011, PHCSE has represented the only K-8 public school in Pennsylvania with a core focus in entrepreneurship education.

2023

The mission of LIFE Male STEAM Academy (LIFE MSA) is to prepare all male scholars for college success and career readiness. LIFE MSA recruits from the Woodland Hills District, which has a 70% economically disadvantaged population, and the greater Pittsburgh region with a 64% economically disadvantaged population. The overarching vision of LIFE MSA is to operate a STEAM-focused K-12 school that serves male students of all races and national origin focused on nurturing the intellectual capacity of male students whose academic progress has been limited by poverty, community violence, and lack of access to rigorous learning opportunities through inquiry-based science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education.

2021

City Charter High School was founded in September 2002 as a technology infused public school, whose mission is to graduate students who are academically, technologically, personally and socially prepared to succeed in post-secondary education, training, or employment.

2022

The Pennsylvania STEAM Academy Charter School (“PA STEAM”) is a new, high-impact education opportunity that offers students a rigorous and relevant learning experience by emphasizing and exploring the interconnections between and among Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math.

2023

Provident Charter School - West is designed to serve students with dyslexia and other language based learning disabilities. As the most common specific learning disability, dyslexia affects approximately 15-20% of the general population. While students with dyslexia have average/above average intellectual abilities, learning to read, write and spell can seem like an impossibility. Without a very specific type of remedial regimen, the Orton-Gillingham Approach, students will quickly fall behind in school, lose confidence and motivation, and often become anxious, fearful and dread going to school each day. The future for students who are not proficient readers by third grade is grim. Many will remain behind throughout high school, while some may drop out, develop mental health or substance abuse issues and some will become incarcerated. Provident Charter School exists to change trajectories for these students.

2021

Midland Innovation + Technology Charter School is a response to the needs of diverse children from underserved communities throughout southwestern Pennsylvania and to the “skills gap” in the region’s job market in its first reindustrialization in more than a century.

2022

Renaissance Academy Charter School was incorporated in 1999 by local parents wanting a high-performing school in their community.

2023

After 14 years of successful operations, Seven Generations Charter School (SGCS) is answering the continued demand of parents and community members of the Lehigh Valley by expanding programming and enrollment. With the acquisition and renovation of a new building and campus, SGCS is ready to expand its operations to meet these needs. This expansion will include the addition of a Kindergarten classroom, the expansion of the Middle School program, their specialist classes and outdoor learning program. They plan to expand enrollment by 30% in the next three years and further support the accessibility to Seven Generations’ high-quality public charter school for at-risk student populations.