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'''Accelerated Learning Laboratory''' is a tuition-free publicly funded kindergarten to grade 12 charter school in [[Pima County, Arizona]]. The school is located near the base of Wasson Peak in the foothills of the [[Tucson Mountains]].
located near the base of Wasson Peak in the foothills of the [[Tucson Mountains]].
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>
==Curriculum==
All students that enroll will be accepted as A.L.L. is a charter school, but students will take a placement test, which places them in correct classes based upon their knowledge of each subject.
The school offers [[AP Calculus]], [[AP Physics]], [[AP Chemistry]], [[AP Biology]], [[AP English]], [[AP US History]], [[AP World History]], [[AP Econ]], [[AP US Government]], and offers language classes in Mandarin-Chinese.<ref name="Bodfield" /> These subjects and curriculum are designed to give every student the ability to attend any university or college in their sights. The school's graduation rate is 100 percent, and 100 percent of its students attend a 4-year college.<ref name="WP" />
Students at Accelerated Learning Laboratory focus intensely on the [[Advanced Placement]], [[SAT Reasoning Test|SAT]], and [[ACT (test)|American College Testing]] so they can be accepted into their selected college/university. Students can enroll in any math subject, from multiplication and division to AP Statistics, and if they then pass the Advanced Placement test of each math subject they can continue in classes about vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, and mathematical analysis. Most students start in pre-algebra in as early as the first grade, and continue to advance in any subject, not just math, throughout their whole stay at Accelerated Learning Laboratory.
In 2008, an eighth-grade student at the school was the only in the state recognized as an Advanced Placement Scholar. <ref name="Bodfield">{{cite web | title = Accelerated Elementary and Secondary | publisher = [[Rhonda Bodfield]] | year = 2008 | url = http://tucson.com/news/local/education/precollegiate/child-scholars-advance-to-college-work-early/article_06b84118-e902-5c8b-bd8c-78744d24e497.html | accessdate = 13 November 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.allaccelerated.org School website]
[[Category:Schools in Tucson, Arizona]]
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