GARY — It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The coronavirus pandemic has halted the IHSAA boys basketball playoffs, and 21st Century forward Demondrick Velez is struggling to accept that his final prep campaign might be remembered as the greatest season that never was. IHSAA postpones boys basketball in coronavirus response, girls gymnastics still on “I’ve […]
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1,2,3,4 how many years of college do you want to score? In high school? Students are empowered to fly as high as they want in our high schools. As such, Jordin earned 30 college credits (one year) and a career certification. Andrenia, Demondrick, and Khadijah earned an associate degree (2 years of college). All four […]
Just had to share this with you. I’m friends with Jeremiah Tate, a 2012 grad of ours. He posted this on Facebook yesterday with the picture above. “Going on four years at Intel and I still get mistaken as an intern: – “Are you the intern?” – “No buddy, I’m in charge of this project. […]
Yesterday was the first day of our newest school and it appears Baton Rouge was ready for us. We made the front page of the Baton Rouge Advocate. Pretty nice article! Check it out by clicking here. The article shares our goals and our successes in Gary, too. A key reason we are so excited […]
Both GEO Academies Score Among Top Charters in Baton Rouge Enrollment Will Top 1500 This Year
Aug 03, 2019
Dear Friends: Louisiana released state test score results in July and we’ve finally digested the data. I’m proud to share that both GEO Academies performed well in Baton Rouge, too. GEO Prep Academy came in third best among charters in performance and GEO Prep Mid City came in second best in growth among charters. One […]
February 7, 2019 Dear Friends: Well, it was bound to happen, wasn’t it? In the past few weeks, I’ve shared that our students achieve more college credits and gain more confidence in their abilities to do college level work when they are actually “in the room where it happens” on a college campus taking those […]
Dear Friends: As we take a moment to pause for Thanksgiving, I thought I would share a few inspiring reflections from the past few months at GEO Academy schools. The ladies above are high school cheerleaders at 21st Century Charter School in Gary, Indiana. All of them are also currently taking college level courses at […]
Dear Friends: The numbers are in and we couldn’t be more excited! Gary’s 21st Century Charter School students earned more than 700 real college credits in real college classrooms last year. That’s twice the number of college credits earned by our students in 2015-16. Our high school students took more than 40 different classes on […]