Rethink Highschool

'Launchpad' is Lincoln, Nebraska's most unique private high school experience - where learners prepare for the adventure of a lifetime, whether the next step is a selective college, launching their own business or a first job at SpaceX or Google.

​Launchpad Heroes:
  1. Prepare for the real world through challenging apprenticeships, interviews with industry leaders, and deep reflection of how your gifts and passions align with a need in the world.
  2. Read deep literature; communicate clearly and powerfully; and tackle real world computational challenges.
  3. Wrestle with timeless moral dilemmas through Socratic discussions in Civilization and through studio governance.
  4. Dive deeply into college level biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, finance and psychology through immersive quests and public exhibitions.
  5. Serve in leadership roles in lower studios, their community, and around the world in the Acton Network.
  6. Determine their Next Great Adventure ​after high school!

Your Next Great Adventure


​Launchpad students get ready for real-world success by gaining valuable skills, mastering them through apprenticeships, and launching real startups, businesses, and projects.

Would you rather attend Stanford or ​launch the next Google or SpaceX?


​Your accomplishments will be showcased in a series of badges that will dazzle admissions officers at top notch universities or convince employees, partners and investors to join forces in a world changing start up.
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WHY AUDITION FOR ACTON ACADEMY?

  • ​Each individual at Acton Academy matters so we want to know WHO YOU ARE.

  • Because we only have a few spots, reserved for extraordinary people. We need to know what you’re made of and that you’ll never give up.
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  • Most schools solicit applications; we’re a learning community that only accepts commitments from people who believe they are going to change the world. You have to prove yourself if you want a starring role in life.
"Acton is a place where you learn how to learn and learn how to live. There will always be fallouts, and places where things just don’t go how you may have planned them to, but what’s important is the ability to brush it off and keep going."
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an Inside Glimpse at Launchpad

See why we are Lincoln's Top Rated Private School  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐