INDIANAPOLIS — Global Prep Academy has announced it will expand its middle school grades to a second site near Martindale-Brightwood with the $2.7 million purchase of a building directly off the Monon Trail.
The new building at 1002 E. 25th St. sits on a former industrial site and will be renovated to house up to 325 middle school students. The pre-K-8 charter school’s enrollment has more than tripled since launching as an Innovation Network school within Indianapolis Public Schools in 2016. The charter was asked to turn around Riverside School 44 and started that year with 269 students. Today, it enrolls more than 800.
The second building, which Global Prep said will open in the fall of this year, will free up space at School 44 roughly three miles away, where seventh and eighth grade students currently learn in a modular classroom outside the main building. The school has a dual language model, and supports all students, including those with disabilities.