Endeavor Charter School is a TK-12th grade public charter school. Endeavor was established in 2020 out of a resource center serving both Mountain Home School Charter and Glacier High School Charter. A history of Endeavor would not be complete without understanding our roots.
Here are some key dates:
1988 - Bass Lake School District establishes the Home Study Program/Independent Study.
1990 - Home School building opens to serve as offices and resource center.
1991 - School status given to Mountain Home School, supporting homeschooling through Independent Study.
1993 - California created the Charter School Law which allowed for the creation of 100 innovative schools not limited in scope by the Education Code and geared to the needs of the community. The charter has to be approved by the local school board and the State Department of Education. In California, a charter school is approved for operation in 5 - year increments. During that time the school must show that the goals established in the charter are being realized.
Early 1994 - Staff and Parents of Mountain Home School developed a charter to create a school which supported home based, personalized learning without some of the restrictions imposed on home independent study. The charter provided the ability for parents and teachers to create a truly individualized education for each student. The charter chose to recognize the parent as the primary teacher and give the parent more voice and responsibility in the school program.
September 9, 1994 - Mountain Home School Charter became California Charter School #63
1999 - School District purchases the Old Proprietor Unfinished Furniture store and Mountain Home School Charter moves into its new facility at 41267 Highway 41.
1999 -Mountain Home School Charter renews it's charter petition for another five-year period.
2002 - Mountain Home School Charter helps foster the beginning of another charter school, Glacier High School Charter.
2003 - Mountain Home School Charter renews its charter in October for another five years.
2007 - Mountain Home School renews its charter for another five years.
2008-09 Mountain Home School left the Bass Lake School District and joined with Glacier High School Charter to form a non-profit educational entity called Western Sierra Charter Schools.
2015 - Mountain Home School partners with Glacier High School to open resource center in Fresno.
2019 - The staff, parents, and students of the Fresno Resource Center submitted a petition to convert to a new charter school called Endeavor Charter School.
2020 - Fresno Unified approved the petition and the state approved Endeavor Charter School. Endeavor's charter number is 2099.
Here are some key dates:
1988 - Bass Lake School District establishes the Home Study Program/Independent Study.
1990 - Home School building opens to serve as offices and resource center.
1991 - School status given to Mountain Home School, supporting homeschooling through Independent Study.
1993 - California created the Charter School Law which allowed for the creation of 100 innovative schools not limited in scope by the Education Code and geared to the needs of the community. The charter has to be approved by the local school board and the State Department of Education. In California, a charter school is approved for operation in 5 - year increments. During that time the school must show that the goals established in the charter are being realized.
Early 1994 - Staff and Parents of Mountain Home School developed a charter to create a school which supported home based, personalized learning without some of the restrictions imposed on home independent study. The charter provided the ability for parents and teachers to create a truly individualized education for each student. The charter chose to recognize the parent as the primary teacher and give the parent more voice and responsibility in the school program.
September 9, 1994 - Mountain Home School Charter became California Charter School #63
1999 - School District purchases the Old Proprietor Unfinished Furniture store and Mountain Home School Charter moves into its new facility at 41267 Highway 41.
1999 -Mountain Home School Charter renews it's charter petition for another five-year period.
2002 - Mountain Home School Charter helps foster the beginning of another charter school, Glacier High School Charter.
2003 - Mountain Home School Charter renews its charter in October for another five years.
2007 - Mountain Home School renews its charter for another five years.
2008-09 Mountain Home School left the Bass Lake School District and joined with Glacier High School Charter to form a non-profit educational entity called Western Sierra Charter Schools.
2015 - Mountain Home School partners with Glacier High School to open resource center in Fresno.
2019 - The staff, parents, and students of the Fresno Resource Center submitted a petition to convert to a new charter school called Endeavor Charter School.
2020 - Fresno Unified approved the petition and the state approved Endeavor Charter School. Endeavor's charter number is 2099.