Inspiring Students to Create
a Better Tomorrow
Summit School provides a well-rounded education, empowering students to thrive, lead, and grow.
Summit School of the Poconos, currently offering private education, is planning to transition to a tuition-free public charter school. The individualized curriculum and educational philosophies that Summit School has always embraced will remain the same.
The transition to a charter school will allow the greater community to benefit from Summit’s innovative educational program, actively preparing the next generation to tackle the realities of the 21st-century workplace.
Our meaningful approach to education empowers children and young adults to express themselves freely while taking an active role in their education, reinforcing the idea that we all have the power to direct our futures.
Through cross-disciplinary, hands-on learning and shared governance, we foster confident learners who want to make a difference in their community and are better prepared to compete once they leave our campus.
Inspiring Students to Create a Better Tomorrow
Summit School provides a well-rounded education, empowering students to thrive, lead, and grow.
Summit School of the Poconos, currently offering private education, is planning to transition to a tuition-free public charter school. The individualized curriculum and educational philosophies that Summit School has always embraced will remain the same.
The transition to a charter school will allow the greater community to benefit from Summit’s innovative educational program, actively preparing the next generation to tackle the realities of the 21st-century workplace.
Our meaningful approach to education empowers children and young adults to express themselves freely while taking an active role in their education, reinforcing the idea that we all have the power to direct our futures.
Through cross-disciplinary, hands-on learning and shared governance, we foster confident learners who want to make a difference in their community and are better prepared to compete once they leave our campus.
Our Innovative Curriculum Breaks the Mold of Traditional Education
TAILORED CURRICULUM
Every child is respected and taught as an individual. Our highly-responsive curriculum is interest-driven and appropriately paced, allowing all students to flourish.
INTERACTIVE EDUCATION
Within our cross-disciplinary curriculum, education becomes meaningful, creative, and collaborative to inspire a student’s love of learning.
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
Students are in the driver’s seat, mapping out their own progress and advocating for their next level of growth.
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES
Project-based learning integrated with community service empowers students to understand how to meet life’s demands and develop skills for success in a global society.
STUDENT VOICE & CHOICE
Students become civically-engaged leaders through mutual respect, shared learning, and open-forum discussion, building a closer-knit community.
Our Innovative Curriculum Breaks the Mold of Traditional Education
TAILORED CURRICULUM
Every child is respected and taught as an individual. Our highly-responsive curriculum is interest-driven and appropriately paced, allowing all students to flourish.
INTERACTIVE EDUCATION
Within our cross-disciplinary curriculum, education becomes meaningful, creative, and collaborative to inspire a student’s love of learning.
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
Students are in the driver’s seat, mapping out their own progress and advocating for their next level of growth.
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCES
Project-based learning integrated with community service empowers students to understand how to meet life’s demands and develop skills for success in a global society.
STUDENT VOICE & CHOICE
Students become civically-engaged leaders through mutual respect, shared learning, and open-forum discussion, building a closer-knit community.
“Summit School is everything my husband and I had hoped in a school for our daughter. We're grateful this forward-thinking, 21st Century, project-based STEAM curriculum school is available to local Pocono residents.”
- Martina, Parent
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
Our students are prepared for the real world by:
- Combining multiple disciplines in the classroom to more realistically represent the way the world works.
- Developing skills needed to succeed in the workplace like effective communication, innovation, and collaboration.
- Teaching that mistakes are an important part of the learning process and serve as a catalyst for continued learning.
- Empowering older students to become role models in the community through our student mentorship program.
SHARED GOVERNANCE
Our civics program brings democracy to life by:
- Allowing student-elected officials to lead weekly meetings to grasp the importance of self-regulation and compromise.
- Giving students a voice in making rules for greater ownership in managing their school community.
- Fostering an environment where students learn to restore balance and harmony with our restorative justice program.
- Experiencing democracy in action: All teachers, students, administrators, and board members receive one vote in school meetings.
- Learning how to respond to situations in a socially appropriate and compassionate manner for better social awareness.
ACADEMIC RIGOR
Student learning becomes active rather than passive by:
- Participating in learning experiences that are both standards-aligned and at their personal level of readiness.
- Using assessment rubrics as a tool for students to map their own progress and paths to success.
- Providing opportunities for responsibility and developing an independent voice in the classroom.
- Taking on the cognitive challenge of contributing to deep classroom discussions and reflections about meaningful topics and concepts.
Whether headed to the workforce or higher education, graduates of Summit are independent learners, critical thinkers, and self-advocates who understand how to ask the questions that will get them to the next level.
“I can confidently say that Summit School has been the best fit for our boys. They have flourished in this environment where they can move and explore what they're interested in, where they can ask questions through projects, where creativity is encouraged and democracy is practiced. We couldn't be any happier with their education.”
- Allison, Parent
How the Enrollment Process Works
Parents of children interested in enrolling at Summit Charter School will be given the opportunity to register for pre-enrollment. If applications exceed the number of seats available, a lottery will be held. Any currently enrolled student in Summit Charter School is exempted from the lottery.
Enrollment Preference Hierarchy
As permitted by Pennsylvania’s Charter School Law, Summit Charter School will give preference in admission to the following categories of students, subject to availability. These students are exempted from the lottery so long as space is available in the grade sought.
1
Summit Charter School students whose parents or legal guardians are founders of the Summit Charter School/Founding Coalition Members, including existing and former students of Summit School of the Poconos.
2
Children of parents or legal guardians who actively participate in the development of the charter school, including children of Summit Charter School employees and Board Members.
3
Siblings of students currently enrolled in the school. For the purpose of this policy, a sibling is defined as a child who is related to an existing student by blood or adoption, or legal guardianship and who share a legal tie to at least one common parent.
4
Students residing in the Pocono Mountain School District (the school district in which the School is located).
5
Students residing outside the Pocono Mountain School District (all other school districts within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).
Note: Summit Charter School will be open to all students statewide on a space-available basis and will not discriminate in its admission policies or practices on the basis of intellectual ability, athletic ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, status as a person with a disability, proficiency in the English language or any other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district.
Students must meet minimum/maximum age requirements and will be subject to Pennsylvania’s current age restrictions for public school admission and funding or qualify for an exception as noted in state regulations.
Enrollment Preference Hierarchy
As permitted by Pennsylvania’s Charter School Law, Summit Charter School will give preference in admission to the following categories of students, subject to availability. These students are exempted from the lottery so long as space is available in the grade sought.
1
Summit Charter School students whose parents or legal guardians are founders of the Summit Charter School/Founding Coalition Members, including existing and former students of Summit School of the Poconos.
2
Children of parents or legal guardians who actively participate in the development of the charter school, including children of Summit Charter School employees and Board Members.
3
Siblings of students currently enrolled in the school. For the purpose of this policy, a sibling is defined as a child who is related to an existing student by blood or adoption, or legal guardianship and who share a legal tie to at least one common parent.
4
Students residing in the Pocono Mountain School District (the school district in which the School is located).
5
Students residing outside the Pocono Mountain School District (all other school districts within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).
Note: Summit Charter School will be open to all students statewide on a space-available basis and will not discriminate in its admission policies or practices on the basis of intellectual ability, athletic ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, status as a person with a disability, proficiency in the English language or any other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district.
Students must meet minimum/maximum age requirements and will be subject to Pennsylvania’s current age restrictions for public school admission and funding or qualify for an exception as noted in state regulations.
Ready to Pre-Enroll for Summit Charter School?
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Ready to Pre-Enroll for Summit Charter School?
Want to Enroll Your Child in Summit School of the Poconos Private School?