# SuccessTech Academy

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**SuccessTech Academy** was an [alternative](/source/Alternative_school) [public](/source/Public_school_(government_funded)) [high school](/source/High_school#United_States) in [downtown](/source/Downtown_Cleveland) [Cleveland](/source/Cleveland), [Ohio](/source/Ohio), [United States](/source/United_States). It is part of the [Cleveland Metropolitan School District](/source/Cleveland_Metropolitan_School_District). A grant from the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](/source/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation) helped to establish the school, which opened to enrollment in the 2002–2003 school year. SuccessTech Academy offers a technology infused high school curriculum with a focus on problem and project based learning.

All 59 students in the school's first [senior class](/source/Grade_12) (2005-2006) were college-bound.[1]

As of the 2009–2010 school year, SuccessTech's [graduation](/source/Graduation) rate was 94.9%[2]

The school closed at the end of the 2016-2017 school year, with the campus transitioning to Davis Aerospace & Maritime High School.

## School shooting

Main article: [2007 SuccessTech Academy shooting](/source/2007_SuccessTech_Academy_shooting)

A [school shooting](/source/School_shooting) occurred on October 10, 2007. A 14-year-old student, Asa Coon, shot two teens and two faculty members at the school. According to [Cleveland Division of Police](/source/Cleveland_Division_of_Police), the student fatally [shot himself](/source/Suicide). The student was reportedly angered over a [suspension](/source/Suspension_(school_punishment)) given to him earlier in the week, and school authorities confirmed he was not supposed to be at school on that day. Police said that the student had entered the school with two [revolvers](/source/Revolvers), one in each hand, and began firing.[3] According to law enforcement personnel the shootings took place on the third and fourth floor when at that time the [lockdown](/source/Lockdown) announcement, "Code Blue" was made.

## References

1. [SuccessTech Academy has top students](http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/10/successtech_academy_has_top_st.html)

1. ["interactive Local Report Card (iLRC) School Building Questions: SuccessTech Academy"](http://ilrc.ode.state.oh.us/schools/School_Questions.asp?sel=043786,Cleveland%20Municipal,147389,SuccessTech%20Academy%20School,Cuyahoga%20County). Ohio Department of Education. Retrieved 2007-10-11.

1. ["Five Injured As Ohio School Student Goes On Shooting Spree"](http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/gblnews.asp?date=10/11/2007&item=2). Retrieved 2007-10-11.

## External links

- [2006-2007 School Year Report Card](http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2006-2007/BUILD/147389.pdf)
- [2007-2008 School Year Report Card](http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2007-2008/BUILD/147389.pdf)
- [2008-2009 School Year Report Card](http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2008-2009/BUILD/147389.pdf)
- [2009-2010 School Year Report Card](http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2009-2010/BUILD/147389.pdf)
- [2010-2011 School Year Report Card](http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2010-2011/BUILD/147389.pdf)

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