The ideal school is a warm, welcoming, attractive, and safe place. Highly qualified, supportive teachers and administrators oversee education that emphasizes long-term learning goals, integrates new research and technology, and makes available a wide variety of core and elective courses to meet the varying needs and goals of all students.

Successful students set ever higher goals for self-improvement and leave high school with tolerance and respect for themselves and others, good work habits, and a solid academic grounding for future learning.

In the ideal school parents and community members have a great role in students' improvement and success. Administrators, teachers, parents, and community members communicate clearly and often. They treat each other and the students fairly and respectfully. They make sure that academic, financial, cultural, and social resources are available for the good of all students.