SCHOOLS (A-E) BY COUNTY
SCHOOLS (A-E) BY COUNTYALAMANCE
Clover Garden
Clover Garden School will foster community, generate enthusiasm, challenge students academically, and produce successful citizens
County: Alamance
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 2001
Year Open: 2001
School Administrator: Walter Finnigan
School Administrator Phone: 336.264.9447
Address:
2454 Altamahaw-Union Ridge Rd.
Burlington, NC 27217
336.264.9447 (phone)
336.586.9477 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Deanna Townsend-Smith
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3263
River Mill Academy
Allow serious students the opportunity to become confident, well-rounded individuals, prepared for a successful future while providing a safe and positive environment.
County: Alamance
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Jeff Dishmon
School Administrator Phone: 336.229.0909
Address:
PO Box 1450 1242 South Main Street
Graham, NC 27253
336.229.0909 (phone)
336.229.9975 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Deanna Townsend-Smith
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3263
The Hawbridge School
A welcoming and innovative small school, The Hawbridge School is located in a restored mill beside the Haw River, where students participate in river stewardship projects, environmental science research, and canoeing classes.An excellent faculty, a focus on science and art, and a connected community are the school's essential qualities.
County: Alamance
Grade Span: 6-12
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Dr. Marcia Huth
School Administrator Phone: 336.376.1122
Address:
P.O. Box 162
Saxapahaw, NC 27340
336.376.1122 (phone)
336.376.6996 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Deanna Townsend-Smith
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3263
AVERY
Crossnore Academy
Crossnore Academy offers a stable, emotionally supportive, educational environment for children who are academically delayed. Our goal is to empower the child to achieve his or her real academic and social potential.
County: Avery
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 1999
Year Open: 1999
School Administrator: Cyndi Austin
School Administrator Phone: 828.733.5241
Address:
PO Box 309
Crossnore, NC 28616-0249
828.733.5241 (phone)
828.737.7915 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
Grandfather Academy
Provide special educational opportunities for students who have been estranged by emotional, sexual or other abuse.
County: Avery
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 1997
Year Open: 1997
School Administrator: Laura Stone
School Administrator Phone: 828.897.4581
Address:
PO Box 98
Banner Elk, NC 28604
828.897.4581 (phone)
828.898.3849 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
BEAUFORT
Washington Montessori
Washington Montessori is committed to the development of the whole child, enabling him to draw upon all his gifts and reach his greatest potential. We encourage personal responsibility both socially and academically. Each child is allowed freedom of choice and is offered guidance in setting individual goals. Our mission is to inspire academic excellence; to nurture curiosity, creativity, and imagination, and to do so within an environment rich with warmth, kindness and respect.
County: Beaufort
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 2000
Year Open: 2000
School Administrator: Jen Hales
School Administrator Phone: 252.946.1977
Address:
2330 Old Bath Highway
Washington, NC 27889
252.946.1977 (phone)
252.946.5938 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
BRUNSWICK
Charter Day
The Mission of Charter Day School is to teach children the rules and techniques for effective expression and communication in the arts and sciences so that they are able to communicate, by these arts and sciences, our understandings of the universe and our role in it. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality educational experience in a safe, clean, spirited, and morally strong environment.
County: Brunswick
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 2000
Year Open: 2000
School Administrator: Mark Cramer
School Administrator Phone: 910.655.1215
Address:
7055 Bacon's Way
Leland, NC 28451
910.655.1215 (phone)
910.655.1549 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
BUNCOMBE
ArtSpace Charter
At ArtSpace Charter School students learn core content subjects (math, language arts, science and social studies) through the arts (dance, drama, music and visual art). Academic skills and concepts are applied and experienced in artistic contexts. Arts Integration allows students to explore their acquired knowledge and skills, while providing teachers the opportunity to authentically assess student learning. The school offers a complete education through integrated curricula based on the visual and performing arts, utilizing an experiential approach. We believe in a family oriented, cooperative approach to education that encourages parental involvement and community relationships to nurture responsive citizenship.
County: Buncombe
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 2000
Year Open: 2001
School Administrator: Lori Cozzi
School Administrator Phone: 828.298.2787
Address:
2030 US Hwy 70
Swannanoa, NC 28778-8211
828.298.2787 (phone)
828.298.6221 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
Evergreen Community Charter
Evergreen Community Charter School is a learning community committed to the pursuit of excellence in the holistic education of mind, body, and spirit. We prepare students for successful lifelong learning, environmental responsibility, and service. We value the voice of every member of our community. Evergreen offers an academically challenging, developmentally appropriate, experiential, holistic, child-centered education. We strive to nurture a life-long passion for learning as we challenge our community to discover their individual gifts, to honor their inner worth, to strive for excellence, to pursue respectful and ethical relationships with themselves and others, and to find their own path of service.Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) emphasizes hands-on, project-based instruction to encourage high academic achievement and personal growth. We embrace the Positive Discipline model of character development and classroom management which, with natural and logical consequences, promotes personal responsibility. The progress of students is evaluated through multiple criteria assessment strategies and a work sampling portfolio system linked to the North Carolina standards.
County: Buncombe
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1999
Year Open: 1999
School Administrator: Dr. Susan Gottfried
School Administrator Phone: 828.298.2173
Address:
50 Bell Road
Asheville, NC 28805
828.298.2173 (phone)
828.298.2269 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
Francine Delany New School for Children
Francine Delany New School for Children teaches using authentic learning materials and individualized instruction, rather than textbooks and pre-programmed curricula.Students read in self-chosen age- and ability-appropriate novels, write on self-chosen topics, use primary sources for research, and use manipulatives to study math concepts.This method of teaching requires small classroom sizes and a strong sense of personal accountability from each student.
County: Buncombe
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1997
Year Open: 1997
School Administrator: Buffy Fowler
School Administrator Phone: 828.236.9441
Address:
119 Brevard Road
Asheville, NC 28806
828.236.9441 (phone)
828.236.9442 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
BURKE
The New Dimensions
The mission of The New Dimensions School is to create learning environments that support children in becoming producers of their own learning, and in the process learn to love learning.
County: Burke
Grade Span: K-6
Year Approved: 2001
Year Open: 2001
School Administrator: Larry Wilkerson
School Administrator Phone: 828.437.5753
Address:
550 Lenoir Rd
Morganton, NC 28655
828.437.5753 (phone)
828.437.2980 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
CABARRUS
Carolina International School
Carolina International School is a college preparatory public charter school in Harrisburg offering grades K-10 in 2007-08 and adding a grade each year to be a full K-12 school. Our educational program emphasizes international education, environmental studies, and inquiry-based, project-centered learning on a 36-acre wooded campus with streams and natural wetlands.
County: Cabarrus
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 2003
Year Open: 2004
School Administrator: Mystica Nelmes
School Administrator Phone: 704.455.3847
Address:
8810 Hickory Ridge Rd
Harrisburg, NC 28075
704.455.3847 (phone)
704.455.4672 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
CARTERET
Cape Lookout Marine Science High School
County: Carteret
Grade Span: 9-12
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Teresa Parker
School Administrator Phone: 252.726.1601
Address:
1108 Bridges St
Morehead City, NC 28577
252.726.1601 (phone)
252.726.2242 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
Tiller School
Tiller School is an educational community that fosters life-long learners. This is accomplished through an academic curriculum that embraces the highest standards of achievement as well as a social curriculum that requires each student's commitment toward global citizenship. The school is dedicated to nurturing the curiosity, creativity and motivation to learn which exists in every child and adult.
County: Carteret
Grade Span: K-5
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Virginia Jones
School Administrator Phone: 252.728.1995
Address:
1950 Hwy.70 E
Beaufort, NC 28516
252.728.1995 (phone)
252.728.3711 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
CHATHAM
Chatham Charter
Chatham Charter School was among the first 37 schools who gained charter status back in July of 1997.Over time our enrollment has grown from 120 to currently 274 students in grades K-8. Chatham Charter School serves students from the Siler City area, several from all over Chatham County and a few from Randolph, Lee and Wake County.
County: Chatham
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1997
Year Open: 1997
School Administrator: John Eldridge
School Administrator Phone: 919.742.4550
Address:
PO Box 245
Siler City, NC 27344
919.742.4550 (phone)
919.742.2518 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
The Woods Charter
County: Chatham
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Harrell Rentz
School Administrator Phone: 919.960.8353
Address:
160 Woodland Grove Lane
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
919.960.8353 (phone)
919.960.0133 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
CHEROKEE
Learning Center
The Learning Center is a K-7th, expanding to 8th, school that is known for its innovative methods of teaching and promoting creative programs and approaches to learning. The multi-learning style approach to educationuses the Four Blocks method for language arts, Houghton Mifflin math, and across-the-curriculum science, technology and social studies programs.Both Reading and Math Intervention Programs are offered during the school day and through after school programs. Our nationally recognized nutrition program offers many extras such as Small Bites, Super Snack and Garden-Based Learning. Other extras include the Elective Program offering Sting Instruments, Chorus, Geography Bowl, Chess and Math Club, Mini and Middle REAL, Art, Project Green and Clean.
County: Cherokee
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1997
Year Open: 1997
School Administrator: Mary Jo Dyer
School Administrator Phone: 828.835.7240
Address:
945 Conaheeta St.
Murphy, NC 28906
828.835.7240 (phone)
828.835.9471 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Tom Miller
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3492
COLUMBUS
Columbus Charter School
Traditional caring environment that emphasizes traditional values & direct instructional methods; Unites & balances all subjects – language, math, art, music, history & sciences – by teaching each as method for expressing ideas with standard rules and classical examples for study in each area.
County: Columbus
Grade Span: K-6
Year Approved: 2006
Year Open: 2007
School Administrator: Steve Smith
School Administrator Phone: 910.641.4042
Address:
35 Bacon's Way
Whiteville, NC 28472
910.641.4042 (phone)
910.641.4043 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
CUMBERLAND
Alpha Academy
The mission of Alpha Academy is to provide a safe environment that prepares andmotivates all students to become outstanding leaders in the community while reaching their greatest potentials through academic excellence and exceptional character.
County: Cumberland
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 2000
Year Open: 2000
School Administrator: Eugene Slocum
School Administrator Phone: 910.223.7711
Address:
8030 Raeford Rd / PO Box 35476
Fayetteville, NC 28304
910.223.7711 (phone)
910.678.9011 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
CURRITUCK
Water's Edge Village School
Water's Edge Village School (WEVS, pronounced waves) provides a unique education to students on the Northern Outer Banks, an isolated coastal community rich in natural resources and environmentally focused organizations. With the support of a community deeply invested in the success of a local school and grounded in partnerships with children and families, WEVS provides a rigorous, child-centered learning environment. Leadership principles and an academically challenging, integrated, hands-on curriculum empower students by instilling a sense of social and environmental responsibility while nurturing both body and mind.
County: Currituck
Grade Span: K-6
Year Approved: 2011
Year Open: 2012
School Administrator: Meghan Agresto
School Administrator Phone: 252.455.9449
Address:
PO Box 215
Corolla, NC 27927
252.455.9449 (phone)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495
DURHAM
Carter Community
Carter Community School has developed a curriculum, at the core of which is the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. This curriculum focuses on the development of economic and financially literate students. Students will be engaged in relevant learning experiences that will help them better understand the why behind what they are required to learn. Students will begin to see and make connections to the application of knowledge in the real world.
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Gail Taylor
School Administrator Phone: 919.797.2340
Address:
4100 N Roxboro Road
Durham, NC 27704
919.797.2340 (phone)
919.797.2343 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Global Scholars Academy
The mission of the Global Scholars Academy (GSA) is to improve educational outcomes and the overall life chances of youth in grades K through 8 who are at the greatest risk of academic failure due to significant social, economic, and educational challenges - - individually and in their family, neighborhood, and community environments. The young people we strive to serve reside primarily, but not exclusively, in neighborhoods characterized by high rates of persistent and concentrated poverty, joblessness, and a range of other social ills (including gang activity, drug dealing, and other criminal behavior). Through a host of academic and social cultural enrichment activities anchored in a multidisciplinary, extended school day, and extended school year program format, GSA will prepare youth from these types of neighborhoods for attainable slots in high quality public high schools and prestigious preparatory high schools - - the gateways to the most competitive colleges and universities.
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-4
Year Approved: 2010
Year Open: 2011
School Administrator: Agatha Brown
School Administrator Phone: 919.682.5903
Address:
311 Dowd Street
Durham, NC 27701
919.682.5903 (phone)
919.956.8535 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Healthy Start Academy Charter
Healthy Start Academy is a tuition-free open enrollment public charter school. Students are accepted on a first-come first-served basis regardless of academic record. Parental involvement is promoted and encouraged. Teachers are given the tools to be innovative and to inspire excellence. Students are expected to come to school ready to learn and work hard.
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1997
Year Open: 1997
School Administrator: Jim McCormick
School Administrator Phone: 919.956.5599
Address:
807 W. Chapel Hill St.
Durham, NC 27701
919.956.5599 (phone)
919.688.9027 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Kestrel Heights
Kestrel Heights School, founded in 1998 as a public charter school, serves students in grades 6-12 in the greater Durham area. We believe that all children can succeed in a safe and challenging environment that is dedicated to nurturing lifelong learners. By fostering a community with high expectations, modeling characteristics of responsible citizenship, and focusing on the development of the whole person, we believe we will help to create a great school for all children. Kestrel Heights School is associated in partnership with the Ackland Museum and the National Paideia Center at UNC Chapel Hill.
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 1998
Year Open: 1998
School Administrator: Tim Dugan
School Administrator Phone: 919.484.1300
Address:
4700 S. Alston Ave
Durham, NC 27707
919.484.1300 (phone)
919.484.1355 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Maureen Joy Charter
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1997
Year Open: 1997
School Administrator: Alex Quigley
School Administrator Phone: 919.493.6056
Address:
1955 W. Cornwallis Rd
Durham, NC 27705
919.493.6056 (phone)
919.402.4263 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Research Triangle Charter Academy
Working in conjunction with parents and the Durham community, the Research Triangle Charter Academy mission is to become one of the finest elementary and middle schools in the country. We offer a challenging, character-based education through a rigorous curriculum with high academic and social expectations. Our school prioritizes the academic program and instructional time, so each student reads, computes and writes at or above grade level. We expect our students to master basic skills and to realize their full academic potential in preparation for higher education and adulthood.
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 1999
Year Open: 1999
School Administrator: Devon Carson
School Administrator Phone: 919.957.7108
Address:
2013 Ellis Rd
Durham, NC 27703-6127
919.957.7108 (phone)
919.957.9698 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Research Triangle High School
The mission of the Research Triangle High School is to increase access to globally competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education for students and teachers across North Carolina, by incubating, proving and scaling innovative models of teaching and learning
County: Durham
Grade Span: 9
Year Approved: 2011
Year Open: 2012
School Administrator: Eric Grunden
School Administrator Phone: 919.627.1290
Address:
PO Box 13453 / 10 Park Dr
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919.627.1290 (phone)
919.998.3402 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
The Central Park School for Children
The Central Park School for Children is committed to nurturing and guiding the natural eagerness ofeach child to explore, grow, and relate to others. The school is founded on three principles: thatchildren are naturally full of life, power and confidence; that the best available research should guide our methods; and that children develop best in a community where curiosity, challenges and learning are valued. The school is creating a community of partners to guide, cherish and be amazed by the children.
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-5
Year Approved: 2002
Year Open: 2003
School Administrator: John Heffernan
School Administrator Phone: 919.682.1200
Address:
724 Foster St.
Durham, NC 27701
919.682.1200 (phone)
919.683.1261 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
Voyager Academy
SCOS with integrated ethics education, public speaking, hands-on experiential & differentiated instructional strategies; Integrated ethics education using Middle School Visions program created by Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke
County: Durham
Grade Span: K-12
Year Approved: 2006
Year Open: 2007
School Administrator: Carl Forsyth
School Administrator Phone: 919.433.3301
Address:
P.O. Box 71567
Durham, NC 27704
919.433.3301 (phone)
919.433.3305 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Cande Honeycutt
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3493
EDGECOMBE
North East Carolina Prep School
NECP will teach and inspire through a challenging curriculum that integrates technology, experiential learning and critical thinking skills, promotes diversity, emphasizes involvement of students, parents and a highly training staff and create student leaders, all in preparation for post-secondary success. The school’s motto: “To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield.”
County: Edgecombe
Grade Span: K-8
Year Approved: 2011
Year Open: 2012
School Administrator: John Westburg
School Administrator Phone: 252.641.0464
Address:
500 Davis Drive / PO Box 8
Tarboro, NC 27886
252.641.0464 (phone)
252.641.0463 (fax)
DPI Consultant: Lisa Swinson
DPI Consultant Phone: 919.807.3495