Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools

ICEF Public Schools is a nonprofit charter school management organization serving communities in the South Los Angeles area. We operate high-quality, tuition-free, public charter elementary, middle and high schools. Our goal is to develop and manage charter schools that prepare minority students to attend and compete academically at the top colleges and universities in the nation.

Our mission is to transform South Los Angeles into a stable, economically vibrant community by providing first-rate educational opportunities and by annually graduating 2,000 high school students.

1994	ICEF Public Schools was founded by Michael Piscal. The organization was originally named the Inner City Education Foundation.
1996	ICEF Public Schools opened and operated the View Park Prep Summer Camp and After School Programs.
1999	Parents, teachers and community members concerned about the lack of high-quality, college-preparatory public school options in their neighborhood, collaborated with Michael Piscal and chartered ICEF's first school, the View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter Elementary School serving approximately 240 students. Michael Piscal served as principal for the first three years.
2001	View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter Middle School opened.
2003	View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter High School opened.
2005	With the help of Pacific Charter School Development, ICEF Public Schools built a permanent campus for the View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter Middle and High School at Crenshaw and Slauson Boulevards on a 2-acre lot that had been vacant and blighted for over 15 years.
2006	Building upon the successful View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter School model, ICEF Public Schools opened its second family of schools, the Frederick Douglass Academy Charter Middle and High School.
2007	ICEF Public Schools collaborated with the renowned and respected Challengers Boys and Girls Club and expanded yet again by opening the Lou Dantzler Charter Middle School and Lou Dantzler Charter High School. ICEF Public Schools also opened the Thurgood Marshall Middle School and Thurgood Marshall High School. ICEF graduated its first senior class from the View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter High School sending 100% of the graduates to college. Actor Don Cheadle gave the keynote address.
2008	ICEF Public Schools currently operates 13 charter schools serving over 3,000 minority youth throughout South Los Angeles.