Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (JKO) High School was founded with the intent to provide students with a comprehensive education designed to instill a progressive understanding of leadership, scholarship and community. To achieve these goals, an extensive and rigorous Business Studies Program serves as the instructional core; students will have the opportunity to choose from four Business options including Virtual Enterprise, Travel and Tourism, Accounting and Mass Media, Advanced Placement (AP) courses are programmed for those who enter the program. In all instances, the students serve as the center of the instructional model.

JKO students are challenged through the use of a cross-curricular Project Based Learning (PBL) and Work Place Based Learning (WBL) techniques achieved through the extensive use of a cooperative learning-enriched environment. Inquiry-based learning is the point from which all lessons are planned. We recognize that the students and parents come to our school with diverse gifts and are equal partners in attaining our vision. It is through this collaboration that all learners will be offered equal access to education and encouraged to develop themselves as a whole being-the analytical, creative and social selves.

JKO prepares students for the world that awaits them upon graduation. As a result of this understanding, JKO staff is trained in the cross-curricular techniques and uniformity of instruction is implemented. Also, students are encouraged to enroll in the new AP courses offered so as to expand their horizons. Students must be competent in those academic skills, which will enable them to pursue higher education, to accept later training or retraining to continue their education at any point in later life. Today’s internet-driven environment has fostered the inter-dependency that JKO fosters-we no longer live and work in a singular fashion, but as members of the larger world community. JKO’s expert staff, instructional support team and administrators espouse this philosophy and instruction is driven by this ideology.