Opened in 1999, The Preuss School has served as a model for other university-based charter schools to develop high academic achievement among low-income populations by demonstrating parental and family involvement and by implementing new and inventive teaching methods. Today, The Preuss School is unquestionably one of the nation's best secondary schools, as determined by U.S. Department of education, The California Department of Education, the Center for Education Reform, U.S. News & World report and Newsweek, among others. Each year since its inception, 90-95 percent of Preuss graduates have been accepted to a four-year college or university.