{"id":111684,"date":"2026-01-05T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:56:15","slug":"winters-park-academy-to-offer-stem-focused-education-in-frisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/111684\/","title":{"rendered":"Winters Park Academy to offer STEM-focused education in Frisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA new private school with a curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, is opening in Frisco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintersparkacademy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Winters Park Academy<\/a> is launching for the second semester of the 2025-26 school year and is accepting pre-K through 5th grade students to finish out this school year or for the upcoming 2026-27 school year, founder and CEO Brandi Johnson said in an email. The academy is focused on STEM education, Johnson said, and utilizes a research-based approach for academic achievement through STEM activities.<\/p>\n<p>The academy&#8217;s lower school features a library, STEM technology and robotics center, music room, gymnasium, health clinic and catering kitchen, according to its website. Class sizes are set to be 18 students or less.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new private school with a curriculum focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, is opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[240,49547,49549,49548,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-111684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-frisco","9":"tag-frisco-private-school","10":"tag-frisco-schools","11":"tag-frisco-stem-school","12":"tag-plano","13":"tag-plano-headlines","14":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}