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Smart Horizons Career Online Education
Address
1280 SW 36th Ave, Suite 104 Pompano Beach , FL 33069 United States
Information
Type	Private Online High School, Distance education, Adult education
Established	2010
Status	Open
School district	Smart Horizons Career Online Education
Superintendent	Dr. Howard Liebman
CEEB code	102450
Grades	High School
Accreditation	AdvancED/SACS/NCA/NWAC Accredited as an Online School District
Website	www.shcoe.org

Smart Horizons Career Online Education is an accredited online school that provides high school diplomas and career certification via online programs. The company is a for-profit school owned by Darwin Global.^[1] It describes itself as a "private, national online school district." The company’s core competency is designing, building, and managing affordable, career-based online high schools for students around the world.

Founded in 2010 and located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Smart Horizons Career Online Education develops career-based high school diploma programs. The company offers career-credentialed certificates programs for several in-demand careers, such as Child Care, Commercial Driving, Criminal Justice, Office Management, and Homeland Security. All students graduate with both a high school diploma and coursework toward earning a career-credentialed certificate in one of these areas.

Smart Horizons Career Online Education is fully accredited as an online school district by Cognia (formerly AdvancED).^{[citation needed]}

Smart Horizons Career Online Education designs, builds, and manages career online high schools for the following types of organizations:

• Corporations
• Public Libraries
• Post-Secondary Schools
• Adult & Career Education (K-12)
• Prison Education
• Dropout Prevention
• Workforce & Community-Based Agencies

These partnership programs are designed to develop full-service, branded career online high school programs.

• Smart Horizons Career Online High School
• Virtual school

• Business to Watch (Florida Trend, April 2010)
• New Online High School to offer a second chance to High School dropouts (South Florida Business Journal, December 2009)
• Smart Horizons helps students graduate (Pensacola News Journal, November 2009)
• Web high school targets working adults (Pensacola News Journal, May 2010)

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