Ted K. Tajima High School is one of 26 charter schools founded by the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Charter Management Organization. The mission of these schools is to prepare traditionally underserved students in low-income communities for success in college. The Alliance's educational model focuses on five core values:
- High expectations for all students
- Small, personalized classrooms
- Increased instructional time
- Highly qualified principals and teachers, and parents as active partners in the school community
Through instructional practices, student expectations, and school culture, ACRAHS #16 will produce learners who are:
- Effective Communicators
- Expressing ideas and opinions with clarity
- Conveying their ideas in writing
- Listening in order to understand
- Using a range of written and technological sources
- Life-Long Learners
- Setting and striving toward realistic goals
- Seeking out resources to achieve goals
- Continuing their quest for knowledge
- Problem Solvers
- Collecting and analyzing information and data
- Justifying their conclusions
- Making informed decisions
- Accessing information from a variety of resources
- Dependable and Responsible Citizens
- Participating in extracurricular activities
- Contributing time and resources to those in need
- Acting as role models
