11.19.2009 10:46 am
Missouri Charter School of the Year: Academie Lafayette in Kansas City
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From the Missouri Charter Public School Association newsletter:
Academie Lafayette is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade French immersion charter school in Kansas City.
The school has received numerous honors, including being named a Gold Star School by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in 2009.
Eighty-four percent of Academie Lafayette students are currently in college and 99 percent have graduated or are still completing high school.
Few urban public schools can boast of similar stats.
