SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
A Spokane charter school is one of four in Washington that will be allowed to continue teaching for the next five years. The Spokane International Academy is one of the state’s four original public charter schools. It has plans to start its own high school, beginning next fall.
When it opened in 2015, the Spokane International Academy welcomed 150 kindergarten, first and sixth graders to the former St. Patrick Catholic School in northeast Spokane. Over the years it has grown to a kindergarten-through-eighth grade program with 600 students, says academy CEO Travis Franklin.
“We just moved to our brand new campus, just off Magnesium and Nevada, and it will allow us to grow our enrollment over the next five or six years to around 950 students, he said.