Atlantic Cape Community College signed an agreement with Atlantic City School District to formally partner in the Early College High School initiative, which is also made possible by the George Washington Carver Education Foundation, on November 21, at the college’s Mays Landing Campus.

The Early College High School initiative is a national program started by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2002. The program allows students to obtain college credit before graduating high school and helps remove major barriers to postsecondary education access and success. The program will be open to Atlantic City High School students in grades ninth -12th.