The Albuquerque City Center Schools (ACCS) project, begun in 1983, was designed to increase the effectiveness of 12 schools in the Albuquerque High School cluster by creating a climate of high expectations, improving academic achievement, encouraging a climate of positive discipline, promoting student, community and private sector participation, and developing individual school programs to accomplish the project's goals. This report evaluates the project's success after its second school year of operation. Data were collected from status reports by principals; needs assessments administered to students, staff, and parents; comprehensive tests of basic skills to evaluate achievement; school profiles to delineate differences in school characteristics; and interviews with administrators, principals, staff and student leaders. The project has impacted the ACCS in several areas. It has: (1) facilitated change by providing a structure and framework for school improvement activities; (2) increased the achievement orientation of schools; (3) strengthened school-community relationships; (4) positively affected discipline and school climate; (5) contributed to greater stress and symptoms of burn-out among school staffs; and (6) resulted in subtle shifts in perception and attitude and the institutionalization of new strategies, approaches, and procedures. Recommendations are included as guides for the project in the 1985-86 school year. (PS)