RISE ACADEMY
Coming soon to Melbourne
A world-class, no-fee, independent school for disadvantaged students
OUR VISION
All Australian children, regardless of background, have access to a world-class school education.
OUR MISSION
To provide an outstanding, no-fee school that closes the achievement gap and demonstrates that it is possible for all schools to provide an excellent education.
OUR GOALS
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Close the achievement gap for our students
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Prepare students for successful and fulfilling lives
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Prove a successful school model that can be scaled
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Population growth requires hundreds of new schools to be built across Australia over the next decade.
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Australia’s school performance is continuing to decline in both absolute and relative terms despite major investments in education funding and policy reform over the past 10+ years.
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There is a large achievement gap for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. By Year 9, disadvantaged students are 30 months behind their more advantaged peers.
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A generation of students are being left behind. There is an urgent need for a new approach that goes beyond incremental improvement.
The problem we are trying to solve
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High expectations
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World-class teachers and rigorous curriculum
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Focus on teacher-student relationships
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Data driven and evidence-based
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Accessible to all
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A school model that applies evidence-based best practices that have been utilised in leading schools across the world with proven success in closing the achievement gap.
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Our school model will rest on the following foundations for success: