LISA Academy gets go-ahead for second Northwest Arkansas school

NWA Democrat-Gazette/DAVID GOTTSCHALK Lisa Academy Springdale is visible Friday, August 16, 2019, at 301 Holcomb Street in Springdale. The academy is now in the location of the former Ozark Montessori Academy.
NWA Democrat-Gazette/DAVID GOTTSCHALK Lisa Academy Springdale is visible Friday, August 16, 2019, at 301 Holcomb Street in Springdale. The academy is now in the location of the former Ozark Montessori Academy.

The state Board of Education decided a charter school system can open a campus in Rogers.

The board voted unanimously Thursday not to review a proposal by LISA Academy, meaning LISA Academy can open a kindergarten-through-12th grade school in Rogers, starting with the elementary grades in 2022-23. A charter school panel previously endorsed the project.

The campus, with a proposed 950-student cap, will be the second operated by the open-enrollment, publicly financed charter system in Northwest Arkansas. The LISA proposal increases the charter school system’s overall enrollment cap from 3,432 to 4,382.

The system operates a kindergarten-to-12th-grade program in Little Rock in what will grow from three to four buildings in the next school year, another kindergarten-through-12th-grade program in two buildings in Sherwood, and a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school in Springdale that LISA Academy began operating this school year.

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