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The CCA Story

Capitol Collegiate Academy opened its doors in August 2011. During the first year, the school was temporarily located on Roosevelt Avenue in South Sacramento. CCA moved to its permanent Meadowview location in 2012. 

Long before the first day of school in 2011, Founder Penny Schwinn worked tirelessly with education advocates throughout California who wanted to see better public school options in Sacramento.  Capitol Collegiate’s charter was approved by Sacramento City Unified School District in 2010.

Capitol Collegiate followed a slow growth model, which means we added an additional grade level each year. Our founding scholars started Kindergarten in 2011 and graduated from 8th grade in 2020. To date, CCA has graduated 100% of 8th graders each year and had 5 graduating classes. CCA currently serves 470 students in Transitional Kindergarten (TK) through 8th Grade.