03 Jul Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy (Girls Prep) Receives $100,000 Grant from the Hall Family Foundation

Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy (Girls Prep) recently received a grant from the Hall Family Foundation for $100,000 to support their capital campaign.

Funding from the Hall Family Foundation will help Girls Prep perform environmental remediation, roof repairs, building envelope repairs, foundation waterproofing, water service repairs, structural engineer assessment and ensuing repairs on retaining walls and masonry, upgrades to meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards, painting, and a variety of smaller repairs and improvements to their middle school building.

The current building cannot support the student driven inquiry projects and collaborative structures our students will need to achieve their fullest potential. The current dated facility would hold students back from what could be a more expansive – and by today’s standards, necessary – experience and preparation for college or career. Girls Prep will renovate this facility to facilitate communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity.

Girls Prep formed in 2016 to organize and operate a 5th through 12th grade public charter school for young women in the Kansas City, Missouri school district. The vision of Girls Prep is to provide a college preparatory experience through academic and social development that will allow students to pursue their own educational and professional goals.  When Girls Prep welcomes its first students in Fall 2019, it will become the first single-gender, open-enrollment charter public school in Kansas City. Girls Prep will enroll 100 fifth graders in its first year and grow one grade per year to form a middle school (5th -8th) and high school (9th – 12th). Both schools will foster a strong sense of community and a rigorous, college-bound academic culture.