Community Academy of Philadelphia Crest

Community Academy of Philadelphia

Community Academy of Philadelphia (CAP), a Pennsylvania Charter School, was one of the first Pennsylvania schools to receive a charter in 1997, the first to graduate a high school class, and one of the first five charter schools founded in the Commonwealth on Pennsylvania. CAP is an accredited school, Pre-K to grade 12 by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Committee on Institution-Wide Accreditation.

Fairhill Community High School Crest

Fairhill Community High School

A Project of One Bright Ray, Inc.
Fairhill Community High School (FCHS) is and alternative, project/modular-based, year-round educational program for young people ages 16-21 years of age. Eligible students for FCHS are young people with 13 or less credits who have dropped out of the Philadelphia public schools or are likely to drop out due to insufficient progress.

North Philadelphia Community High School Crest

North Philadelphia Community High School

A Project of One Bright Ray, Inc.
North Philadelphia Community High School (NPCHS) is an alternative, Learning-to-Work, project/modular-based, program for young people ages 16-21 years of age. Eligible students for NPCHS are young people with 13 or less credits who have dropped out of the Philadelphia public schools or are likely to drop out due to insufficient progress.

Baltimore Community High School Crest

Baltimore Community High School

Baltimore Community High School (Baltimore CHS) is Baltimore City Public Transformation School opening in September of 2009 for young people ages 14-21, who have dropped out of a Baltimore City Public School or are likely to drop out due to insufficient progress. Baltimore CHS is divided into two schools, a Transformation School and a Accelerated School.

One Bright Ray

International Education and Community Initiatives, dba One Bright Ray, Incorporated (OBR), is a non-profit community based organization founded in 1980 by Mr. Joseph H. Proietta, OBR strives to expand the participation of disadvantaged children and families in educational programming that focuses on the development of knowledge, skills, and competencies that will lead to roles as participating, productive, and caring adults.

OBR has created The Community High School (1980), Community Academy of Philadelphia, a Pennsylvania Charter School (1997), Fairhill Community High School (2004), Supplemental Educational Services Program (2007), North Philadelphia Community High School (2008), and Baltimore Community High School (2009).

One Bright Ray News

Fairhill Community High School

Much can be said about Fairhill Community High School. How it came to be. When it was created. Its purpose and mission. The real story, however, lies within…

Fairhill Community High School: Phoenix Rising

According to mythology, the phoenix was a sacred bird reborn from its ashes. It’s fitting, then, that the phoenix is the mascot for Fairhill Community High School, a…

Center For Literacy

Bank of America Invests in Literacy
Bank of America Invests $2.7 Million in Philadelphia. The Center for Literacy is a participant in the Neighborhood... Read More

Mother's Literacy Linked to Child's Success
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health concluded that programs to boost the academic achievement... Read More

Education Week: Charterschools

GOP Control Brings New Life to Education Issues
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More Mass. Students Attend Charter Schools
The number of Massachusetts children attending charter schools has more than doubled in the past decade. Read More

Hope

"We can use our words to build people up and encourage them, or we can just as easily bring destruction. Let your words encourage the people in your life by speaking strength, hope and victory".

Dedication

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn".

Fighting the Good Fight

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.