Academy of Allied Health and Science is a twenty-first century public high school administered by the Monmouth County Vocational School District and located in Neptune, New Jersey. A member of the National Consortium of Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, the Academy of Allied Health and Science offers a college preparatory program with an emphasis on mathematics, science and technology, especially as these subjects apply to medicine.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology is a Fairfax County public school offering a comprehensive college preparatory program emphasizing the sciences, mathematics, and technology. The school serves students selected on the basis of aptitude and interest in the biological, physical, mathematical, and computer sciences and who intend to pursue college preparation in the sciences, engineering, or related fields. There are approximately 400 students each in grades nine, ten, eleven, and twelve.

Working with the belief that science/technology is a process or a way of thinking and acting that blends human functions and needs with knowledge, tool use, and skills, our school has a four-fold mission: offering programs that promote enthusiasm, exploration, and academic excellence in an evolving economic and scientific/technological community; serving as a laboratory school examining and developing new methods and materials in curriculum
innovation/reform; fostering a broad exchange of ideas and programming through outreach in teacher training, enrichment for students K-12. and networking; serving as a model for private sector/public education partnerships.

The Met began in September 1996 as a bold new school, with a student-teacher ratio of 13:1, high standards, and strong parent involvement. The Met has 100+ students at each of its two campuses. In the next few years, the Met will open 4-6 new campuses - serving 100+ students each - and a commons with state-of-the-art athletic and technology centers. Seventy-five percent of students come from Providence while the remaining twenty-five percent come from other communities in Rhode Island.

At the Met, each student works with an advisor, a parent or guardian, and a workplace mentor to design a personalized curriculum based on the student's interests. Students work at internships in community businesses and organizations two days each week, learning academic skills through real-world problem solving.

The Met curriculum aims to empower students to take charge of their learning, to provide opportunities for students to gain skills and knowledge necessary to achieve success beyond high school, to foster a community of respect and responsibility, and to encourage students to become life-long learners.

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High Tech High- San Diego is the flagship school of the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation effort to build and support small high schools.

The Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High Charter School is a bold innovation in public education. Launched in September 2000 by an industry and educator coalition, High Tech High (HTH) occupies a newly designed learning space at the former Naval Training Center (NTC) in San Diego. A small, diverse learning community with a current enrollment of 452 students, HTH is founded on three design principles: personalization, adult-world connection, and a common intellectual mission. Innovative features include performance-based assessment, commom planning time, state-of-the-art technical facilities for project-based learning, internships for all students, and close links to the high tech workplace.