Native American Community Academy

College Preparatory Program

NACA integrates college prep skill building throughout the curriculum – starting with grade 6. Students are actively engaged in the learning process and college awareness in all classes. Particular emphasis in the college preparation process and skills building takes place through each student’s advisory class. Advisory is a small class by grade level, designed to create a small, tightly-knit learning community.  Students are assigned one teacher who follows them throughout the years they stay at NACA.

Throughout their High School experience, NACA students participate in leadership trips to Washington D.C., experiential trips overseas, college visits throughout the country, and engage in service learning opportunities while on those visits. It is the goal of NACA to not only prepare each student for college but to deepen each student’s commitment to their community when they graduate with their degree.

A comprehensive 6-12 college prep curriculum is currently being created by both the Dean of Academics and College Preparation and the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, for integration into NACA’s core curriculum.

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Dual College Degree Program

NACA requires high school students to take 6 credit hours of concurrent enrollment in order to graduate at one of Albuquerque’s local Universities or Community Colleges.  Students are assessed on their college readiness and can begin as early as their sophomore year taking college level classes. NACA has an on-staff administrator, the Dean of Academics and College Preparation, who oversees the dual enrollment and college advisement process with the students and their families.

NACA has also teamed up with the Institute for American Indian Arts to offer two college level courses, taught by an adjunct faculty member, right on our own NACA campus. NACA also partners with Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) to offer a college study skills course on campus as a pre-requisite course for our sophomores.  Students receive college credit and HS elective credit for all dual enrollment courses they successfully complete.