SuccessTech Academy

SuccessTech Academy is an alternative public high school in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helped to establish the school, which opened to enrollment in the 2002–2003 school year. SuccessTech Academy offers a technology infused high school curriculum with a focus on problem and project based learning.

SuccessTech Academy
SuccessTech Academy team fields questions at the sixth annual Buckeye Regional Robotics Competition
Address
1440 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland , Ohio 44114
Information
School type	Public, high school
Founded	2002
School district	Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Superintendent	Eric Gordon
Principal	Phillip Schwenk
Staff	30 teachers
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	270 (2010-2011)
Language	English
Campus	Urban
Color(s)	Royal Blue and Platinum
Mascot	Lion
Nickname	The Royals
Website	Website

All 59 students in the school's first senior class (2005-2006) were college-bound.^[1]

As of the 2009–2010 school year, SuccessTech's graduation rate was 94.9%^[2]

School shooting

Main article: 2007 SuccessTech Academy shooting

A school shooting occurred on October 10, 2007. A 14-year-old student, Asa Coon, shot two teens and two faculty members at the school. According to Cleveland Division of Police, the student fatally shot himself. The student was reportedly angered over a suspension given to him earlier in the week, and school authorities confirmed he was not supposed to be at school on that day. Police said that the student had entered the school with two revolvers, one in each hand, and began firing.^[3] According to law enforcement personnel the shootings took place on the third and fourth floor when at that time the lockdown announcement, "Code Blue" was made.