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Legacy Academy says it will build on Huntersville-Concord Rd.

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LegacyAcademyLogoStartup private school Legacy Leadership Academy said Thursday it will open in temporary quarters this fall on the grounds of Christian Montessori of Lake Norman on Stumptown Road in Huntersville. The school’s board also announced it plans a permanent campus on 77 acres off Huntersville-Concord Road, near Metrolina Greenhouses.

The new school site is the same one where Thunderbird Preparatory Academy charter school had previously planned to build its permanent campus. Thunderbird, which opened last fall, remains at a temporary site on NC 115 at the Cornelius-Huntersville line.

Legacy also had announced last week that it had hired the former assistant principal from Thunderbird as its director.

Legacy’s founders are Banyan Strategics, the same school management firm that had been helping Thunderbird Academy, until a split this winter. Banyan’s leader Rick Walker helped found Lake Norman Charter School. Its board includes financial and business experts, education consultants, and educators.

The school’s board also said Thursday that it has no plans to convert to a charter school in the future. Banyan Partners also is involved in a startup charter school, Legacy of Charlotte. The group said that schoolw would be renamed and would be separate from the Huntersville school. “Legacy Leadership Academy and the pending Legacy Charter will be sister schools operating in a collaborative manner with their own respective strengths and attributes,” the group said.

Legacy Leadership Academy is in the midst of parent information sessions as it forms classes for a planned Fall 2015 start.

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LEGACY ANNOUNCEMENT

Here’s the announcement from the Legacy Leadership Academy/Banyan Strategics on Thursday, April 2, 2015:

It is with great excitement that the Board of Trustees for the Legacy Leadership Academy of Lake Norman announces that the home for their inaugural year will be on the property of the Christian Montessori of Lake Norman.

Legacy Leadership Academy will occupy refinished instructional buildings at the front of the wooded 20-acre property located at 14101 Stumptown Road, Huntersville, NC. The overall campus has beautiful, mature trees, open fields, and a playground.

Simultaneously, while the students and families are learning and growing at the site on Stumptown Road, construction will be underway for a state of the art facility. This facility will be located on 77 acres of land off of Huntersville-Concord Road and across from Metrolina Greenhouses.

The campus will be developed in phases, first completing the elementary and junior high facilities and then moving on to construct the high school facility. The first facility will feature a domed common area with a performance stage, flanked on one side by the elementary school and on the other by the junior high. This expansive common space will serve as a gathering place for community functions, school performances, athletic events, and once the high school is complete, can be up-fitted into a fine arts center. The high school will be built the following year with classroom wings flanking its domed athletic arena.

Legacy Leadership Academy has been founded on Servant Leadership principles guided by proven Gallup Strengths-based talent development and Covey leadership development best practices. Legacy Leadership Academy will utilize the high academic performance focused E.D. Hirsch Core Knowledge curriculum. Legacy Leadership Academy has already begun to accept applications for their inaugural year, 2015-2016. Legacy Leadership Academy will add its middle school for students in grades 6-8 in its second academic year of 2016-2017. Legacy Leadership Academy high school for grades 9-12 will be ready for the 2017-2018 academic year.

For clarification, Legacy Leadership Academy will be the flagship Banyan school for all of Banyan Charter and Private Schools. Legacy Leadership Academy will not be converted into a charter school in the future. Banyan is involved with a pending charter, Legacy of Charlotte. That charter will be renamed and will have distinct operations and location from Legacy Leadership Academy. Legacy Leadership Academy and the pending Legacy Charter will be sister schools operating in a collaborative manner with their own respective strengths and attributes.

Parent meeting times and locations have been scheduled to share the vision for Legacy Leadership Academy and to answer questions from parents and community members. The dates, times and places for these meetings can be found on the school’s website. For more information on Legacy Leadership Academy, Legacy academic and development plans as well as Legacy cost-efficient tuition structure, please visit us at www.legacylkn.org.

The LLA Board of Trustees is comprised of 3 Banyan Strategics principals, Rick Walker, Sharon Garner and Bob O’Connell.

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