Western Youth Leadership Engagement and Empowerment School

WYLEES is short for the Western Youth Leadership, Engagement, and Empowerment Middle School. WYLEES incorporates student-centered Project-Based Learning to develop rigorous, relevant, real-world learning experiences to both facilitate students mastery of grade level academic content and to help them acquire the skills needed to be competitive in our rapidly changing world. Through projects focused on meeting the needs of our community, our students, or WYLEES, will become leaders through civic Engagement and service learning, with the ultimate goal of empowering them and their families to build the future they want for themselves and the communities they live in.