Empower Community High School

Empower's vision is for students to claim their rightful place in this world as agents of change, growth, and social progress. Empower educates and fosters the scholars, writers, artists, and innovators who will build a just and equitable world.

Testimonials

"We're at a school where students take the lead in everything. We get the freedom to actually express what we want to do here and how we want to learn. The classrooms are very small too so you have space to actually have a conversation one-on-one with teachers and get the help you need." - Cielo, Empower student

"I enjoy coming to school. I'm proud to be here sitting in the classroom. I know that I'm coming to school today and I'm not just going to do physics. I know that I'm going to come to school today and we're going to talk about physics, and then we're going to talk about the displacement of people from Aurora and we're going to talk about immigration, we're going to talk about all these things that is taking these basic topics and turning them into something that puts it in a new perspective. And I think that's just very inspiring." - Maurice, Empower student

"The teachers actually value what we say. I can ask for individual help and it will help us improve." - Tesfana, Empower student

"Before coming to Empower, I wasn't really sure on who I was. I would shy up, and coming to Empower I don't do that anymore. It's really taught me how to truly express who I am and understand who I am and walk in who I am and be proud of it." - Maurice, Empower student

"To me, the Hustle Collective is an opportunity. What excited me [about Hustle Collective] was the fact that I was able to do something new and not be doing the same thing every day and living monotonously. The Hustle Collective helped me in my development of being a leader by making me think about how I can lead, how I can help people. Participating in Hustle Collective impacted me by making me understand that not everybody's going through the same thing." - Sean, Empower student