Advisory committee suggests name options for ACPS charter school Sign for Community Public Charter School and Murray High School (Source: WVIR) By NBC29 Newsroom | December 18, 2020 at 7:11 PM EST - Updated December 18 at 7:11 PM
ALBEMARLE CO., Va. (WVIR) - Albemarle County Public Schools has 10 options to consider when it comes to a new name for the divisionâs charter school.
The merger of Community Public Charter School, a middle school, and Murray High School left the new school needing a new name.
An online survey will go out next month for feedback on the names developed by the community advisory committee.
Launching a successful public charter school in Stanley had long been a dream of retired East Gaston High School Principal Eddie McGinnis.
That dream came true in the late summer of 2019 when Community Public Charter School opened its doors to nearly 250 kindergarten through fifth grade students.
The inaugural year was only a little more than half complete, however, when the raging, worldwide pandemic known as COVID-19 turned the school and all the planning that had gone into it upside down.
“The Lord most definitely has a sense of humor,” said McGinnis, also the senior pastor at Community Pentecostal Center, as he and I talked in the office of assistant principal Monica Dellinger on a sparkling and frosty December morning.