Learn more about City Charter High School

1. City
Charter
High
School
INTERNSHIPS
&
POST-HIGH
SCHOOL
PLANNING

2. Financial Literacy & Technology Curriculum
➔ 3 years required Financial Lit classes
◆ Small Business
◆ Budgeting
◆ Banking, credit, car/apt
➔ Finance Elective Courses:
◆ Entrepreneurship
◆ Economics
◆ Accounting
◆ Marketing
➔ Microsoft and Adobe Certification
Courses
➔ Robotics Team Marketing & Social
Media

3. Advisory & Looping
"When I started 9th grade and heard we
would have these same teachers until we
graduated, I was like ‘Are you serious?
This is going to kill me. I can’t take some of
these people another year.’ But now I
think ‘I really understand where the
teacher is coming from and I try to relate
to them the way they are relating to me.’ I
thought I would get sick of seeing the
same people every day. Now I think it is
helping me learn better because my
teachers know who I am."
➔ Students meet with advisor several times a week
➔ Teams of teachers stay with students for all 4 years

4. Internships & Post-High School Planning
➔ Career Readiness classes in grades 9-
11
◆ Career interests
◆ Resume planning
➔ 13 week off-campus internship in a
field of interest
➔ Transition Managers work
individually with students
◆ College/trade school applications
◆ Career planning and interview prep
City High’s 4.2 GPA student Cierra Saunders discovers she’s “a
natural” in an advanced medical research laboratory during
her internship at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine Department of Immunology.

5. School Culture
➔ Trimester Schedule
◆ Breaks in December, April, August
➔ Professional Dress Code
◆ Business Casual
➔ Team-taught Full-Inclusion Classes
◆ 1+ teaching assistants in every class
➔ Hands-on Project Based Learning
◆ STEAM projects
◆ Lab-based Science courses
◆ Collaborative Cultural Literacy classes
◆ Equity-based curriculum

6. Free Laptops & Tech Support
➔ 1-1 computing with a
no-cost Dell or Lenovo
laptop
➔ In-house tech support
and repair
➔ Web-based student
management system to
monitor attendance and
grades

7. Sports, Clubs, Cultural FIeld Trips
➔ Sports
◆ Students may play a sport for home school 1
trimester per year
➔ Over 20+ clubs occur both during the school
day and after school
◆ Fitness Club
◆ Robotics
◆ Art Club
◆ Student-created Musical
➔ Cultural Field Trips
◆ Presque Isle
◆ Niagara Falls
◆ New York CIty
◆ Costa Rica

8. Livestream Learning & COVID Response
➔ Every class
livestreamed daily
➔ Optional in-person
learning once a week
➔ All recommended CDC
measures for schools
being followed
➔ In-school temperature
checks and sanitation
stations

9. Virtual Open House
➔ Video Tour
➔ Live Teacher Q &A
➔ Sign up on our Website or
Facebook Page
➔ Dates:
◆ Sat. 11/7: 10 am or 1pm
◆ Wed. 11/11: 6pm
◆ Sat. 11/14: 11am

10. Questions / Application
➔ Visit us @ www.cityhigh.org and
@CityHighPgh
➔ Admissions Concierge service:
admissions@cityhigh.org
➔ Admitting 9th/10th to start in
January 2021
➔ Call: 412.690.CITY Ext. 111
Michelle Fossum, Director of
Enrollment
fossum@cityhigh.org
Ext. 111
James Watson, Student Information
Manager
jwatson@cityhigh.org
Ext. 121

11. Discover what we’ve known all along
– technology is essential to learning.
"City High handled the situation very well The teachers did a great job staying engaged with
students and checking in on their well being both academically and emotionally."
"Everything City High and the teachers have done thus far has shown how easily and quickly
they've been able to adapt."
"The way that teachers quickly adapted to the digital only schooling was amazing. Bravo!!!"
"You all did amazing under these uncertain times..we applaud you all..thank you for everything
that the staff and principal did to make this transition on the families more accommodating and
easy to navigate."
"I'm very happy with how things were handled during a very difficult situation. Teachers for both of
my kids were very accessible with questions and concerns. Very pleased with progress especially
after talking with other parents about experience with their schools."