High School Program Participating Schools and Organizations in Central Massachusetts Accelerated Learning Lab Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational School Worcester Boys and Girls Club Burncoat Middle School Chandler Community Elementary School City View Elementary School Clinton Elementary School Douglas High School Elm park Community School Flagg Street School Floral Street School Forest Grove Middle School Gardner High School Gibbons Middle School Goddard Elementary School Jacob Hiatt Magnet School Lake View Elementary School Leicester High School Millbury High School Nipmuc Regional High School North High School Northborough Middle School Walter J. Paton Elementary School Rice Square Elementary School Shrewsbury Middle School South High Community School Spring Street Elementary School Sullivan Middle School Thorndyke Road Elementary School Westborough High School Worcester East Middle School Worcester Youth Center YWCA High School Program Junior Achievement's High School Program consists of five themes which help tenth through twelfth-graders learn about personal, national, and international economic issues. These programs are designed to prepare both students who intend to go on to higher education as well as ones who will enter the work force directly after graduation. A semester-long project in which students start up, manage, and liquidate their own company.
Students choose what they wish to sell, how best to produce it and how to market it.
Individuals apply to hold the various jobs in the company structure and conduct employee evaluations. A set of three interconnected sessions designed to prepare students for acquiring a professional job. Success Skills reviews the steps for obtaining a job then focuses on development of interpersonal skills. Leadership JA engages students in a study and practice of leadership qualities. Workplace Internships places students into an intensive job experience program.