Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence Academy

Palmetto Achievement Center for Excellence (pace) Academy, an alternative education campus (aec), public charter school, provides evidence-based, multi-sensory, structured language instruction to students in the south carolina midlands. We are committed to providing a quality educational choice for students with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences who would benefit from orton-gillingham instructional methods. All students at pace Academy attend an ace (academic core enrichment) class every day for 30-45 minutes. During this ace time, students are placed in groups based on their needs to help close the gap in phonological awareness and decoding skills. Students receive instruction using a structured literacy approach which includes project read (language circle enterprises) and other orton-gillingham based instruction. Pace opened as a new school in the fall of 2021 with 77% of the student population having documented disabilities: 16 students with a 504 plan and 127 students with an individual education plan (iep). Combined with the additional challenges of a global pandemic, many less determined individuals would have quit before they even started! Pace Academy is proud to be the first tuition-free school in the midlands for students with dyslexia.