Knox Prep News Today

The school will be all-boys opening in 2024 with 105 sixth graders.

The Boys and Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley is leasing their North Knoxville building to Knoxville Preparatory School in a three-year lease purchase agreement. Boys and Girls Club Tennessee Valley President and CEO Bart McFadden said Knox Prep will ultimately purchase the building at the end of the three-year lease.

Plans to create a replica of the all-boys Chattanooga Preparatory School in Knoxville are moving ahead after the effort won a narrow vote of approval by the Knox County school board last month.

The charter school, Knox Prep, will be the countys first single gender school and first charter school open to middle and high schoolers.

Knox Countys first boys-only charter schools would engage students with culturally relatable curriculum, prepare them for college success.

When the Knox County school board met earlier this month, members hit a tense 4-4 deadlock on a series of votes.

Tennessee law allows Knox Prep to be funded by local taxpayer dollars with light oversight by the school board.

As Knox County debates a possible new charter school, here are issues that have been raised.

On Thursday, the Knox County Board of Education is expected to vote on whether to allow an all-boys charter school to open its doors in the county.

Let me be clear: Public money should stay in public schools. Knoxville Prep is not a public school.