The MU Office of Charter School Operations sponsors six charter schools, with twelve school buildings, educating students from pre-kindergarten through high school. Our portfolio includes three charters in St. Louis and three charters in Kansas City. We welcome you to explore our diverse school communities and feel free to contact us, or any of our schools, with questions or to obtain enrollment information.
KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS
ST LOUIS SCHOOLS
INACTIVE SCHOOLS
Better Learning Communities Academy (St. Louis)
Carondelet Leadership Academy (St. Louis)
Jamaa Learning Center (St. Louis)
Ewing Marion Kauffman School (Kansas City)
Genesis School (Kansas City)
Lee A Tolbert Community Academy (Kansas City)
School Monitoring and Status
The primary role of a sponsor is holding schools accountable for the results promised in their charter. In our role as a charter school sponsor, MU monitors the performance of all schools in our portfolio. As described in our Operations Guide, we look at school governance, finance, operations, and academic performance. We do this through a variety of activities, looking at school documents and records, as well as visits to schools and attendance at board meetings. Each year we use the information so gathered to determine a school’s status as one of the following.
High Performing
- APR above 85% for three of the last four years,
- Graduation rate of 80% (for schools offering high school), and
- No unresolved letters of concern
Good Standing
- APR above 70% for two of the last three years, and
- No unresolved letters of concern, or
- A new school not yet eligible for an APR
Academic Warning
- APR below 70% for two of the last three years
Organizational Warning
- Unresolved letters of concern about aspects of school operations
Probation
- APR below 70% for three of the last four years, and/or
- Unresolved letters of concern for two consecutive years
Closure
- Any school after two consecutive years on probation, without increases in performance,
- A serious breach that necessitates charter revocation as defined by law,
- Charter lapse or non-renewal, or
- Governing board opts for closure
Individual School Status
Detailed information about individual charter schools is provided on their web pages elsewhere on this site. A summary of each school’s status follows. Note that when a charter school has multiple campuses, we consider only the status of the whole charter, not individual buildings.
Kansas City
- Frontier Schools is in Good Standing
St. Louis
- Confluence Academies is in Good Standing
- Momentum Academy is in Good Standing
KANSAS CITY
ST LOUIS
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