About me
Casey Taylor is the founder and Superintendent of Achieve Charter Schools of Paradise. In 2005, she worked with parents, community leaders, and educators to develop and open Achieve, a kindergarten through fifth-grade charter school in Paradise, California. In 2008, Casey led Achieve as they expanded their program to middle school. In 2018, she worked with community leaders, local business owners, teachers, and families to open Achieve Charter High School, a high school focused on college and career opportunities for all through entrepreneurship and computer science pathways. After the 2018 Paradise Camp Fire, Casey led her team in reopening schools in temporary facilities in Chico while building a permanent school facility so the kindergarten through eighth-grade school could remain in Chico long-term. In 2021, she and her team reopened the elementary school in Paradise, which now serves grades K-6th grade.
Casey is a Paradise native and is committed to providing high-quality educational options to the community, especially during the rebuilding process. She sits on the Rebuild Paradise Foundation Board, is a Paradise Rotary Club member, and serves on the Paradise Citizen’s Alliance. Casey is also an advocate for public charter schools and serves on the California Charter Schools Association’s Board of Directors and as the chair of the California Charter School Association’s Member Council. She works closely with local charter leaders in Butte County and is the chair of the Butte County Charter Leaders Network.
Under her leadership, Achieve Charter School has been recognized as a California Distinguished School in 2014, 2020, and again in 2023. Casey was also named the California Charter Schools Association’s Charter Leader of the Year in 2017. In 2021, she received the award from the Association of California School Administrators for School Leader of the Year for Butte and Glenn Counties. Then, in 2022, Achieve received the California Pivotal Practice Award, which was awarded for the innovative ways Achieve handled education during the pandemic.
Casey lives in Paradise. Her daughter Terryn is at California State University Chico, and her son Trenton graduated from Chico State with journalism and marketing degrees. Both of her children attended Achieve.
