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Welcome to the 2024-25 school year, Wildcats!

It is great to have all of our students back this week! Please take a moment to watch this video message, welcoming everyone to the new school year.

The safety and well-being of all members of our community remains our top priority at The Academy. As mentioned in the video, you can read about the steps we have taken to ensure your child's safety as well as view several resources in our Safety Overview Message. One of those resources that is worth highlighting is our process for responding to student safety concerns. If a safety concern arises at any point in the year, you can trust that these are the steps we will be following in the background. We will always do our best to communicate as much detail as we can as quickly as possible. Sometimes we are limited by privacy protections, though, in the level of specifics we can share when communicating about an individual situation. Understanding this process can help you know what steps we are taking behind the scenes to ensure everyone's safety.

Our desire to keep your child safe is not limited to those times when students are in the building but also on their way to and from our campuses. Please read our reminders about how we need your help to achieve this most essential of duties during pick-up and drop-off times.

Lastly, we invite you to review our academic progress from the 2023-24 school year in The Academy's Annual Impact Report.

We're looking forward to a fabulous year. Thank you for entrusting us with your Wildcat!

Review the full Annual Impact Report here.

The full article, which is available to read here, summarizes student performance in reading and math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, between 2009 and 2019. These rankings, created at the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University, are adjusted for the age of the charter school and for individual students’ background characteristics. They are based on representative samples of charter-school students in grades 4 and 8 and cover 35 states and Washington, D.C.

Overall, the top-performing states are Alaska, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, and New Jersey.

The annual year-end video message can be viewed here. It reviews major academic accomplishments from the past school year as well as previews important upcoming facilities work. The accompanying video that goes into future facilities work in more detail can be viewed here along with the full Facilities Master Plan document.

Academy students proudly presented their work in a wide range of mediums - painting, drawing, digital art, ceramics, and more. Wildcat artists invited family, friends, and community members to browse an impressive gallery of projects developed over the course of the school year. The High School Student Art Show also served as a celebration of the portfolios Advanced Placement Art students developed to submit for college course credit.