La Mirada High School's
Academy of Commerce and Entrepreneurship

ACE Business Academy

The ACE Academy is designed to introduce students to the world of business. ACE will prepare students to either enter the business work force directly out of high school or conitnue their business education by pursuing a post secondary degree.

ACE offers a diverse sequence of classes that build on each other to give students exposure to the many different business fields. Academic courses are specially designed for academy students with built in business units that meet the state standards for that subject.

The ACE business academy boasts 2 outstanding and unique programs. The first is the Business Education Scholarship Training B.E.S.T. program which is a non-profit organization that sponsers the "Apprentice" program. The Apprentice program is a competitive internship program that has the "apprentices" work as interns for 4 months and compete in 4 business challenges. For more information on the B.E.S.T. program visit www.socalbest.org. The other outstanding program is Virtulal Entreprise (VE). VE is the Senior class for ACE students in this class students create and run a ficitous business and compete against other high schools in California. Students are given the opputunity to travel and compete in several business categories.  For more information on the Virtual Entreprise program for Califormia visit www.virtualenterprise.org.

By completing the ACE course sequence, students will meet all requiremtents for entrance into a community college or CAlifornia State University (CSU) system. Due to the entrance requirements, academy students not meet criteria for entrance into the University of California (UC) system.