Director's Letter May 30, 2025

Shelly Smith
2 days ago
3 min read

Dear ACA Community,

Hey, we did it! The 2024-25 school year is in the books, and it was a good one! ACA welcomed over 100 new students this past year and our enrollment has been at our cap of 425 for months. That’s a lot of new community connections and friendships made! Our relationship with the Oregon City School District as our sponsors is going well. After a bit of a rough patch financially, ACA is back on solid ground with healthy budget projections. Every member of our community, staff, students, families, and the Board, put in the extra work to make this a great year. Thank you everyone!

And to the Class of 2025, YOU DID IT! We look forward to celebrating with you on Saturday, June 7 at 2:00pm. Thank you to Valerie Johnson and the staff Graduation Committee for planning a very special event for our Grads!

Shallon has finished sorting all the internal LinkUp course requests and I'm happy to report that everyone got into their LinkUp classes. Yay! Special thanks to Mr. Edson for embracing a really large Concert Choir next year so nobody would be disappointed.

If you ordered a LinkUp class, we are ready to accept payments. Here is the process:

The office will be open summer hours 8:00am - 1:00pm through Friday, June 13th with the exception of Tuesday, June 10th which is our All Staff PD day.
LinkUp payments must be made in full by June 13 or families can pay for Semester 1 by June 13 and Semester 2 by November 30.
LinkUp classes that are not paid by June 13 will be automatically dropped.

The Graduation Committee and the Class of 2025 could use a few more hands to pull off the ceremony on Saturday, June 7th. Graduation Tasks Sign Up A reminder that ACA is latex free due to allergies so please no balloons at the Graduation ceremony.

And from our stellar PTO:

Please find our blue BottleDrop bags at the front door over the next two weeks to take home over the summer!

Many thanks to everyone who lent a hand this year with our many activities and events! We are especially thankful for a very successful bake sale and Mike’s Drive In fundraiser this past week- you literally blew us away with your creative confections and turnout despite the busy week!

Wishing everyone an amazing summer!

There will likely be summer Garden Collective events, school work parties, and hopefully a park meet-up so remember to check the calendar on our website often, AllianceCharterAcademy.org and don’t forget to log your Volunteer hours here Volunteer Time Log.

Have a wonderful summer break and thank you for being part of the ACA family!

Go Eagles,

Shelly Smith

ShellySmith@aca.k12.or.us

Executive Director

“The mission of Alliance Charter Academy is to nurture the innate curiosity of our students, ignite their passion for learning, and prepare them for lifelong success through personalized learning and the collaboration of school, family, and community.”