The American School of Correspondence is an American distance education high school in Lansing, Illinois. It was founded in 1897. It is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA-CESS) and the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA).
The school was located in the Hyde Park, Chicago, neighborhood from 1912 to 1996, when it moved to south suburban Lansing.
Program
The American School is a non-public secondary school and offers its own diploma. It is not a GED program. High school students can complete four years' worth of credits at their own pace, often taking less time than in a traditional high school. All exams in the more than 70 courses offered are hand graded by a qualified staff of full-time and part-time instructors. Additionally, the school works with thousands of public, private, and parochial schools throughout the United States to offer distance learning courses to students who have fallen behind in credits, or are working at an accelerated rate. The credits for these correspondence courses are then transferred to the student's high school.
Notable alumni
- Andre Agassi
- Jessica Alba
- Wilson Chandler
- Tiffany Evans
- The Everly Brothers
- Bob Feller
- Members of The Flying Wallendas
- Anna Kournikova
- Robert Morstein-Marx
- Donny Osmond
- Marie Osmond
- Christopher Paolini
- Travis Pastrana
- Mary Pierce
- Shulamit Ran
- Selena
- Jamie Wyeth
- Sho Yano
Notable faculty
- James Bray Griffith
References
External links
- Official website
- City of Chicago. "American School of Correspondence Building". Chicago Landmarks. Retrieved 8 June 2017.Â
- Works by American School of Correspondence at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about American School of Correspondence at Internet Archive
