Bonnie Cone Leadership Academy is one of two Charlotte-area charter schools approved to open in 2022. The North Carolina Board of Education Thursday approved five new charter schools to open in fall of 2022, including two in the Charlotte area. The new Bonnie Cone Leadership Academy is a spinoff of Bonnie Cone Classical Academy, a K-8 charter school that opened in Huntersville in 2019. It will serve grades K-12, including students who move up from the existing school, and got approval to open in the Huntersville area with about 1,500 students. It will be managed by Charter One management company (read the application here).