Académie Lafayette is a French-immersion charter school empowering Kansas City kids to be academically excellent, globally responsible, and participate actively in the world community.
Investments
Lincoln Prep Academy
Beginning in 2017, SchoolSmartKC awarded almost $1.6 million over three years to cover early stage expansion costs as well as key staffing needs related to Lincoln’s expansion…
Communities In Schools
Communities in Schools takes community resources and places them inside public schools, making critical resources like food, housing, healthcare and counseling accessible for all students.
DeLaSalle Education Center
SchoolSmartKC has given DeLaSalle Education Center $229,448 over the past five years, allowing the Center to turn their vision of an alternative high school into reality.
Scuola Vita Nuova
Scuola Vita Nuova serves 414 students in grades K-8, almost all of which live within a 2 mile radius of the school located at Independence Ave. and Garfield, in the Northeast district of Kansas City.
KCPS Strategic Growth
SchoolSmartKC worked with the KCPS district administration to identify eight neighborhood schools who showed meaningful and regular academic progress and invited each to create a new strategic plan that could lift the achievement of their students to statewide levels.
KC Family and Community Engagement
SchoolSmartKC has partnered with local educators, non-profits, and faith based leaders to launch a new Kansas City Family and Community Engagement ( KC-FCE) Fellowship.
Show Me KC Schools
SchoolSmartKC announced a three-year grant for $750,000 to Show Me KC Schools (SMKCS) to help parents and families become better informed about local schools and find the best schooling option for their child.