21st Century STEM Academy to Host February Open House

DECATUR – 21st Century STEM Academy (“21C”) will host an open house Feb. 17 from 1-7 p.m. for prospective students and parents at its unique facility located across from the campus of Emory University at 1549 Clairmont Road.

21C offers a personalized education model designed to enable every student to thrive through individualized and personalized learning with a research-based curriculum offered by accomplished teachers working with student-teacher ratios of 12-1. 21C’s facility contains 4,000 square feet of unique space designed to offer a host of learning experiences, ranging from Mandarin Chinese language immersion, to computer coding, robotics and project based learning. The flight simulator, for example, will be used across a host of academic subjects. Yoga will be available for pupils in a unique tranquil room.

21C is expected to draw as many as 100 students in grades K-10 from the Emory, North Druid Hills, Decatur, Midtown, Virginia Highlands community in its first academic year which kicks off in August 2017, and will expand to K-12 in 2018 with the planned addition of another campus facility. The new school will offer students up to 200 school days, running from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. After-school activities and pre and after-school care will be available at no additional cost so parents can have their child at the school from 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. All-inclusive tuition is $700 a month or $8,400 annually.

“Our small classes and project-enhanced, mastery-based learning with one-to-one tutoring will ensure each child excels,” said Gareth N. Genner, co-founder of 21C and former president of a blue ribbon, K-12 college prep school. “Not every child learns at the same pace or in the same way, and this personalized STEM and liberal arts approach is what many parents are seeking for their children to prepare them for the future.”

Although the full-time academic program will not launch until August, school-day and after school STEM programs begin in January, including opportunities for homeschool students. Additional open houses are scheduled for Feb. 17 and Feb. 20.

To submit an application or learn more about the school, go to www.21stcenturystem.academy.