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After a seven-year journey, Heritage Charter Academy is beginning a new chapter at a brand-new school when the doors officially open for the upcoming school year on Aug. 11. CHRIS STRINE<\/p>\n

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After a seven-year journey, one school is beginning a new chapter at a brand-new school when the doors officially open for the upcoming school year on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n

Heritage Charter Academy Principal\/Operations Director Robyn Gomez-Marsan said Heritage was established in 2019 with 65 students at a building on Santa Barbara Boulevard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emphasis was always on the whole child concept, which was very attractive to families,\u201d she said. \u201cI came to Heritage in 2020 during COVID and saw the potential of a wonderful school that had a family feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new campus at 1429 N.E. 15th Ave., off the Del Prado Extension and just south of Diplomat Parkway, will welcome more than 500 students. The elementary school is larger than the middle, with about 150 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one is a number here. Everyone is known,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

An open house will be held Thursday, Aug. 6, for students and parents to meet the teachers and tour the campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel like a real school. Everything is state of the art of how it is set up. We are excited for the students to experience that coming from a different campus,\u201d Gomez-Marsan said.<\/p>\n

Heritage Charter Academy currently has a wait list for some of the classes, while still accepting enrollment in others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can take up to 795 in total for enrollment,\u201d Gomez-Marsan said, adding that they will gradually grow their enrollment as they do not want to bite off more than they can chew the first year.<\/p>\n

The new campus is 47,000 square feet with double the number of classrooms for their K-8 school. The school is laid out in a square with one side accommodating the K-5 grade students and other middle school students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited because we are coming from a campus that didn\u2019t have a playground before. There\u2019s a wonderful playground and a regulation sized soccer field built on turf,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The campus also includes a state-of-the-art gym with retractable basketball hoops and volleyball nets<\/p>\n

\u201cOur kids now have access to the sports. That was something we were lacking before because we didn\u2019t have the facility. Super excited to give that opportunity,\u201d Gomez-Marsan said.<\/p>\n

With Heritage Charter Academy being a STEM school, the campus also includes a STEM lab that incorporates computer science \u2014- coding, robotics, and 3D printing.<\/p>\n

The school has always been community oriented. It offers food pantry services at the school to service families to get groceries twice a month with the help of the Harry Chapin Food Bank.<\/p>\n

They also support students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are able to link them with resources that they don\u2019t know are available to them,\u201d Gomez-Marsan said.<\/p>\n

She said they provide a school that students want to attend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe diversify the way they are learning and slow it down a little bit,\u201d Gomez-Marsan said. \u201cWe are allowing kids to be able to learn who they are as well, discover their own strengths \u2013 develop confidence in other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said they would like to show that education is something wonderful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat it has a different side,\u201d Gomez-Marsan said, adding that they want the students to \u201cfeel loved and respected and that they are not just here to have the academics, but are really here to become model citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, visit heritagecharteracademy.org<\/a>, or call (239) 829-5134.<\/p>\n


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