Established 2010 Superintendent Dr. Howard Liebman Founded 2010 | Status Open Grades High School | |
Type Private Online High School, Distance education, Adult education Accreditation AdvancED/SACS/NCA/NWAC Accredited as an Online School District Profiles | ||
Smart Horizons Career Online Education describes itself as a "private, national online school district". The school district’s core competency is designing, building, and managing affordable, career-based online high schools for students around the world.
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Founded in 2010 and located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Smart Horizons Career Online Education develops career-based high school diploma programs. Smart Horizons Career Online Education offers career-credentialed certificates programs for several in-demand careers, such as Child Care, Commercial Driving, Criminal Justice, Office Management, and Homeland Security. All students graduate with both a high school diploma and coursework toward earning a career-credentialed certificate in one of these areas.
Accreditation
Smart Horizons Career Online Education is fully accredited as an online school district by the AdvancED Accreditation Commission, the national commission that confers the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI), North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), and the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC) accreditation seals. This means that the SHCOE district and all of its schools are accredited, and that Smart Horizons Career Online Education is recognized across the nation as a quality school system, delivering an AdvancED/SACS/NCA/NWAC accredited online high school diploma.
AdvancED is the unified organization of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI), and the Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWAC). AdvancED provides nationally recognized accreditation for school districts and individual schools and represents 27,000 public and private schools and districts across the United States and in 65 countries worldwide, educating 15 million students.
Partnership Programs
Smart Horizons Career Online Education designs, builds, and manages career online high schools for the following types of organizations:
These partnership programs are designed to develop full-service, branded career online high school programs.