Established in 2003, St. HOPE Public Schools (SHPS) offers pre-K-12 independent charter school education for nearly 1,400 students in our seven schools;  Triumph Center for Early Childhood Education, a preschool, serves children ages 3–5.  Public School 7 (PS7), an elementary school, serves students in grades K–8 and Sacramento Charter High School (Sac Charter High), which houses four small schools on one campus, serves students in grades 9–12.  St. HOPE Leadership Academy, a K–12 school, is scheduled to open in August and will initially serve students in grades 5–8.

The goal of St. HOPE Public Schools is to provide Sacramento youth with a private school education, for free. To this end, SHPS has an unwavering focus on student achievement and is driven by the following vision and mission.

Vision
To create one of the finest urban K-12 public school systems in America.

Mission
To graduate self-motivated, industrious, and critically thinking leaders who are passionate about life-long learning and committed to serving others.

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What are Charter Schools?

Charter schools are innovative public schools accountable for student results and designed to deliver programs tailored to educational excellence and serving the needs of the communities they serve. Charter schools are one of the fastest and most successful educational reforms in the country and continue to grow each year.

How do St. HOPE Public Schools differ from traditional district public schools?

Choice: St. HOPE Public Schools give families the opportunity to choose the school that best promotes their child’s educational well-being, serves the needs of their community’s students, and prepares the students to meet the challenges in the future.

Accountability: St. HOPE Public Schools are created to reach a high standard of student achievement, as well as perform to rigorous fiscal and managerial standards.

Freedom: St. HOPE Public Schools must adhere to the same major laws and regulations as all other public schools, however, they also have a certain freedom from the procedural road blocks that can get in the way of providing educational excellence. St. HOPE Public Schools can focus on setting and reaching high academic standards for their students.

Academic Quality: St. HOPE Public Schools make sure every child has access to a quality education. With higher standards established by each school's charter, St. HOPE Public Schools must meet certain goals to stay open. Most other public schools stay in business no matter how poorly they perform.

Community: St. HOPE Public Schools engage local businesses and other organizations to help provide resources and services to the schools and their families. Nationwide, charter schools have a proven effect on the strength and safety of a community.

St. HOPE is proud to release a white paper, Transformation High Schools: Lessons from Sacramento High. In 2003, St. HOPE undertook one of the nation’s first efforts to transform a failing urban high school when it reinvented Sacramento High. The white paper outlines our story, results, lessons learned and plans for the future. The report further identifies critical expected outcomes for transformation high schools and describes how the St. HOPE model for success evolved.

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