New Natchez charter school enrollment ends on April 20 – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

NATCHEZ — This week and subsequent are the final for these planning to enroll their college students in a brand new Natchez constitution faculty subsequent yr to take action.

4 completely different proposals for a constitution faculty in Adams County had been submitted to the Mississippi Constitution College Authorization Board final yr. Nevertheless, Prompt Influence International Prep’s proposal was the one one accepted in September 2022.

JoAnn Rucker

The brand new constitution faculty is deliberate for the previous Trinity Episcopal College campus, now Cornerstone Church at 319 U.S. 61 South. The situation nonetheless requires approval from the Natchez Board of Aldermen.

Nevertheless, there are already 100 college students enrolled for varsity this fall, mentioned Dr. JoAnn Rucker, Government Director of the varsity known as Prompt Influence International Prep.

“Now we have room and are in search of about 50 extra,” Rucker mentioned.

The college will accommodate college students in kindergarten by way of second grade with plans so as to add an extra grade after every faculty yr till eighth grade.

In February, the Natchez Planning Fee accepted rezoning the Christian Hope Baptist Church, 301 LaSalle St., from R-1 residential to a Particular Use District for the brand new faculty, nevertheless, that location was by no means finalized, Rucker mentioned.

“We had been nonetheless in negotiations at that time and had not finalized it however this location has been signed off on,” she mentioned. “The Board of Aldermen nonetheless should approve and there’s no purpose why they wouldn’t.”

Prompt Influence International Prep is a STEAM—science, know-how, engineering, artwork and arithmetic—constitution faculty run by the non-profit Prompt Influence Instructional Companies, based in 2018.

Extra data on Prompt Influence International Prep and functions could be discovered at instantimpactglobalprep.org.