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Two years after dropping out of high school, Kaitlyn Burgess walked into ACCEL Day and Evening Academy not knowing what to expect. Three years after dropping out of high school, she accepted a $72,000 scholarship to Spring Hill College as a high school graduate.

As Burgess was starting her junior year at Davidson High School, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. She said there wasn’t a full-time nurse there to administer the emergency medicine she might need, and after having two seizures at school, she left.

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Austin Brown assists Samuel Dinkins, a student at the ACCELL Day and Evening Academy, during a class on coding. (Dan Anderson)

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Derrick Carson and a classmate working on a project during a STEM course at Alabama’s first charter school. (Dan Anderson)

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Dr. Jeremiah Newell, superintendent of the ACCEL Day and Evening Academy in Mobile. (Dan Anderson)

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