The new Southwest Key school fills up (but is still taking names)!
We are very excited to work with Southwest Key Programs! They do a lot of great work in social services, teaching our underprivileged youth, creating after school programs, helping at-risk children, and so on. Well, they’re preparing to open the East Austin College Prep Academy, and they’ve met with a huge demand!
The charter school has been in the press a lot lately. It will open as a sixth grade campus and add 7th grade in 2010 and 8th in 2011. It has already filled up the slots for its 2009-2010 6th grade class, and it is still taking names for a waiting list.
The school is going to be based on the successful model of the YES College Prep school in Houston, and it will make a top-notch education available to children in east Austin. We’ll keep an eye on it and update you as the opening approaches.