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Amy Biehl High School
Amy Biehl High School is a tuition free, public charter school located in downtown Albuquerque with a mission of graduating civic-minded, college-bound, and career-ready scholars. Located in the historic Federal Courthouse building, the school was founded in 1999 by two teachers dedicated to helping students achieve academic success in high school and beyond.
Amy Biehl High School’s unique curriculum focuses on service, college and career preparation, and restorative justice. By studying turning points in history from multiple perspectives and emphasizing depth over breadth students learn to be upstanders in their community. An upstander is someone who recognizes when something is wrong and acts to make it right. Students build upon this idea of being an upstander by volunteering in their community. Students in grades 9th-11th participate in monthly service learning activities and seniors complete a 100-hour service learning project with a local organization as graduation requirement.
Amy Biehl High School’s unique curriculum focuses on service, college and career preparation, and restorative justice. By studying turning points in history from multiple perspectives and emphasizing depth over breadth students learn to be upstanders in their community. An upstander is someone who recognizes when something is wrong and acts to make it right. Students build upon this idea of being an upstander by volunteering in their community. Students in grades 9th-11th participate in monthly service learning activities and seniors complete a 100-hour service learning project with a local organization as graduation requirement.
Purpose
Amy Biehl High School is a tuition-free, public charter school located in downtown Albuquerque with a mission of graduating civic-minded, college-bound, and career-ready scholars. Located in the historic Federal Courthouse building, the school was founded in 1999 by two teachers dedicated to helping students achieve academic success in high school and beyond. Amy Biehl High School’s unique curriculum focuses on service, college and career preparation, and restorative justice. By studying turning points in history from multiple perspectives and emphasizing depth over breadth students learn to be upstanders in their community. An upstander is someone who recognizes when something is wrong and acts to make it right. Students build upon this idea of being an upstander by volunteering in their community. Students in grades 9th-11th participate in monthly service-learning activities and seniors complete a 100-hour service-learning project with a local organization as a graduation requirement. We have partnered with over 100 local organizations and given over 150,000 hours of service to the 505! Through this work, students learn career-readiness skills and how to address community needs.
Vision
Courage. Community. Scholarship.
Mission
Amy Biehl High School was founded in the spirit of Amy Biehl, a young scholar dedicated to social justice and service. We graduate diverse learners and leaders who demonstrate the intellectual, social, and ethical habits to improve their communities. Our graduates are civic-minded, college-bound, and career-ready.
Values
- Civic-Minded
- All students participate in community engagement during their time at Amy Biehl High School. Students in grades 9th-11th participate in monthly service days with local non-profits. Community engagement culminates in a self-designed, 100-hour service project with a local organization in the senior year. ABHS students give over 10,000 hours of community service each year and, since its founding in 1999, ABHS has given 150,000 service hours to the 505!
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