In 2017, ''The Washington Post'' ranked the school the twenty sixth most challenging high school in the United States.<ref name="WP">{{cite web | title = Accelerated Elementary and Secondary | publisher = [[The Washington Post]] | year = 2013 | url = https://apps.washingtonpost.com/local/highschoolchallenge/schools/2013/accelerated-elementary-and-secondary-tucson-az/}}</ref>
==School philosophy and characteristics==
The school’s belief is that all students can perform at gifted levels if exposed to the right educational practices and curriculum, regardless of ethnicity, income or gender. The A.L.L. community embraces the belief that all children will exhibit genius, in abundance, when allowed to cultivate innate talents in a challenging, supportive, and civil environment. Students are grouped by social and academic characteristics, instead of by grade, because the school does not believe students mature at a homogeneous pace. Students also address teachers by their first names which is intended to make learning and interacting with teachers a more friendly and open environment. Students are taught to treat each other and faculty with respect and almost no cases of bullying have been reported. According to it's website,<ref name="AESS">{{cite web | title = Accelerated Elementary and Secondary | publisher = [[David Jones]] | year = 2017 | url = http://www.allaccelerated.org | accessdate = 13 November 2017}}</ref> the school expects on-time behavior, zero profanity, near-perfect attendance, and homework five nights a week. Although all students are expected to show up to all classes, but according to the administration at A.L.L. there is a level of unprecedented trust and freedom given to students at A.L.L., Students may leave classes with a teacher’s permission to work on extracurricular and a student’s reason for being of being out of class will often go unquestioned so long as that student has maintained the trust of the faculty and other students.
