With 250+ worldwide campuses on 6 continents, our Learner-Driven community believes every child is a Hero who deserves to find a calling that will change the world. Bound by extremely high standards of excellence and lifelong learning, this is where great adventures begin.

The Acton Academy model was founded by Laura Sandefer and her husband Jeff Sandefer, the founder of the Acton School of Business as a school deeply rooted in an overarching theme of a Hero’s Journey. The school focuses students around a search for their life’s “calling, teaching content through online game-based tools, Socratic discussion and face-to-face projects the school calls “quests.”

Acton Academy McKinney opened in 2019.