MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Pathways Charter School currently is accepting students from kindergarten through 12th grade.

With students spread over five counties, Pathways provides an individualized home-based independent study educational option, with options for self-directed students from diverse backgrounds.  

Pathways offer instruction that addresses individual student needs, and promotes lifelong learning, critical thinkers, and aims to develop able researchers and cooperative learners.

The school provides a rigorous standards-based learning plan with a team approach that collaborates with families, and offers field trips and other activities throughout the school year, along with a library for student’s use.

Locally, Lake County has a classroom and office in Middletown at 21248 Highway 175. The school has been open for more than 10 years in Middletown, but two years ago opened the classroom space in order to have a venue for student exhibits and displays as well as classes.

This year, Pathways students were featured at the Science Discovery Museum in the Bay Area when students were photographed operating a remote control drill that actually operates in Antarctica, but is a model for future Mars missions and was being tested for its use.

The scientists said if this drill is going to work well in space, it needs to pass the test of elementary students trying it out.

Recently, four students have been awarded the Golden State Merit Seal Diploma.

Local student and graduate Alexander Van Oss from the Middletown Center, along withseveral students from the Rohnert Park area, were all awarded this designation.

This means that they were eligible for the Golden State Seal Merit Diploma based on the fact that they are graduating seniors from their school, and they earned a scale score of 370 or above on six qualifying California Standards Tests for English language arts and algebra or geometry, and including history as well from the previous years of high school.

Several of the current students recently were awarded honors: Noah and Wyatt McCollian who are in the sixth grade, have been awarded a gold-level award for their 4-H presentations, and they will go on to compete at the county level at Upper Lake Middle School. They will also be giving their presentations at the school for staff and students at the school.  

Also, the Lake County Office of Education and Children’s Museum of Art and Science is holding a rocket class that was limited to 20 students who wrote essays to be accepted.

One of Pathways’ students, sixth grade Samuel Rippe, has been accepted into the rocket group led by Bill Bordisso in Kelseyville at the Taylor Observatory.

For more information contact the Lake center at 707-987-9702.