Association for High School Innovation (AHSI)

The Association for High School Innovation creates pathways and expands options to future success for all youth. AHSI was formed in 2003 as the Alternative High School Initiative with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AHSI now operates independently as a national network of youth development organizations operating over 275 schools and programs in 35 states and 170 cities nationwide.

AHSI intends to lead – through innovation and intentional collaboration – a national response to the imperative that our country educate all youth.

The Association for High School Innovation (AHSI) is a network of youth development organizations with over 290 sites nationwide committed to creating educational opportunities for young people for whom traditional school settings have not been successful.

AHSI was originally launched as the Alternative High School Initiative in 2003 as a response to the growing national trend of diminishing graduation rates, affecting this country’s low income, African American and Latino youth. Young people who attend AHSI schools, once considered “on the bottom” academically, socially, and economically, are overcoming academic failure and graduating high school prepared to succeed in college and careers.

As of February 2010, the Association for High School Innovation was adopted as a new name when AHSI launched its new enterprise with the intention to lead – through innovation and intentional collaboration – a national response to the imperative that our country educate all youth.

For more information, visit www.ahsi.org.