Preparing Urban
Scholars For Success

 

Emerald Academy is a free, K-8, college preparatory public charter school located in the Historic Mechanicsville neighborhood. It is operated by Emerald Charter Schools, a separate, non-sectarian sister organization to Emerald Youth Foundation.

In 2019, Emerald Academy completed is fourth year educating city scholars – scholars who continued to make significant progress as state test results showed the highest achievement levels in the school’s history:

  • Emerald Academy’s average scores on the Algebra I and Geometry end-of-course assessments – taken by seventh and eighth grade scholars – exceeded the average for all test takers in Knox County Schools (KCS) as well as the state of Tennessee.

  • Third grade scholars who attended Emerald Academy since kindergarten had higher TN Ready outcomes than newer scholars who had previously attended traditional public schools. This also held true for eighth grade scholars who entered Emerald Academy as sixth graders. In short, the longer scholars are at the school, the more significant improvement in the academic outcomes.

  • Emerald Academy third graders performed in the top third of all KCS elementary schools in reading, ranking 17th of the district’s 49 elementary schools.

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Also, in 2019, Lauren Moore began serving as Emerald Academy’s interim school director, and was named permanent school director in January 2020. Moore has been with the school since its first year of operation.

“I am honored to be school director, and this is truly my dream job,” said Moore. “I am encouraged by the progress we have made in just five years of the school’s existence, and I am thrilled to continue to encourage scholars to meet their academic goals toward becoming college-bound leaders.”

 
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