“Our MISSION at ARISE is to empower ourselves with the knowledge, skills, and agency to become highly educated, humanizing, critically conscious, intellectual, and reflective leaders in our community.”

“At ARISE we nurture, train, and discipline our school community to engage in a continuous practice of developing mind, heart, and body towards a VISION where we actively rise up. ”

Empowering Critically Conscious Warrior Intellectuals

LIVING OUT OUR MISSION & VISION THROUGH…

Engaging & Supportive Learning Environments

ARISE High School has been honored to serve the Oakland community since 2007 and looks forward to continuing this service during our next charter term. Our founders, just as our staff today, believe that all children deserve a quality education that doesn’t replicate inequitable and oppressive institutions. Instead, we’ve developed a rigorous, high engagement, and authentic learning experience for all of our students.

We provide a small school environment where we pride ourselves in every student having at least one adult who knows them well and supports them on their educational journey. At ARISE, education is not just about how well you do on a test. We are a small school that emphasizes knowledge of self, society, and history within a highly personalized and supportive learning environment.

Rigorous College & Career-Ready Education

ARISE High School currently serves approximately 330 students in grades 9-12, and prepares students from a diversity of backgrounds to attend college. Currently 90% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch, 89% speak English as a Second Language, and 86% are first-generation college-bound. We are incredibly proud of our students’ successes. Each year, we have had at least 85% of our graduates matriculate into 2 and 4-year colleges and universities.

Through rigorous college & career preparatory coursework, project-based learning, and the presentation and defense of a portfolio of work before a panel of peers, teachers, and community members, every ARISE graduate equips themselves with the knowledge, skills, agency, and critical consciousness to lead a successful life and serve as an Agent of Change in their community.

Community-Centered Linked Learning opportunities

Learning at ARISE is not limited to the confines of our classroom walls. Students at ARISE are highly engaged in their community, through volunteer work, jobs & internships, and other work-based learning opportunities through our Linked Learning Pathways. As early as 9th grade, students are meeting with and learning from industry professionals, job shadowing, doing community service, and asking important questions about pressing social issues through Community Action Research Projects.

ARISE is committed to building and maintaining healthy communities by providing our students and families, many of which are first-generation college-bound, access to college and careers in Education, Community Social Services, Public Health, and Public Policy. Agency and self-determination drive our struggle to improve our own material and social conditions towards a more healthy, equitable, and just society.