Single-sex academies open in North Carolina and Indiana

From The Raleigh News & Observer: The Wake County (N.C.) school system has opened two single-sex academies. The Wake Young Men’s Leadership Academy is a campus of temporary classrooms in Raleigh with plans to eventually relocate to the former Thompson School building near downtown. The Wake Young Women’s Leadership Academy is on the campus of the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh. The academies had 1,000 applicants for the 300 openings. Each school holds 150 students split into grades six, seven and nine. The schools will eventually expand to hold grades 6 to 12.

RELATED...from The Fort-Wayne News-Sentinel: Smith Academy for Excellence, or SAFE, the first all-boys school in Fort Wayne, Ind., has opened. The charter is authorized by Grace College and will be managed by Leona Group. The school's co-founder, Thomas Smith, worked in the Fort Wayne school district for nearly 30 years as a teacher and administrator. Smith had hoped the school would have a new building on the city's southeast side, but because of funding challenges, SAFE is situated in a building that once housed St. John Lutheran School.