SkyView Academy Foundation

A nonprofit organization

SkyView Academy is a publicly funded charter school located in Douglas County, serving nearly 1400 students in grades PK-12. SVA is currently operating in its 13th year.

Testimonials

The first senior class graduated from SkyView in May 2015. This group of 48 students received college acceptance letters from nearly 200 higher education institutions and approximately $3M in scholarship funds.

SVA's 2A/3A Mile High League Athletic Program celebrates regular participation in golf, soccer, basketball, volleyball, and cross-country state competitions.

SVA's entire student body participates in regular service projects chosen by students that benefit local, national, and global communities.

Mission

Vision

SkyView Academy is committed to preparing students to be life-long learners and honorable leaders of tomorrow.

Mission

SkyView Academy offers a research-based, content-rich liberal arts program with a commitment to foreign language studies and community service. Staff, parents, and students are actively involved in a culture of expectation and support where individuals are respected, valued, and known by the content of their character.

Foundation

The SkyView Foundation exists to facilitate fundraising for SkyView Academy, a publicly funded PK-12 charter school in Douglas County.

Background Statement

The vision of SkyView Academy began in 2004 when a group of Highlands Ranch parents came together to create a more challenging and meaningful educational program for their children and the community at large. The founding team was comprised of many qualified and dedicated parents, teachers, and community members with diverse backgrounds who shared a common educational vision for the school.

After two years of planning and developing the school and receiving all the necessary approvals from the Board of Education, the founding team was unable to identify a suitable facility in Highlands Ranch. As a result, a school building was chosen in Parker, and the team opened their program in this community in August 2006, branded as North Star Academy.

Our founding team's original intent was to utilize the Parker facility as a short-term, temporary solution because it was not located in the originally desired Highlands Ranch location. The intent was to relocate the school to their community in three years after a suitable facility could be identified, and long-term financing was secured.

Our founding team did not expect the huge demand for their program from the Parker community. Thus, in the spring of 2007, the North Star Academy Board of Directors, comprised of many of the original members of the founding team, unanimously and collectively agreed to develop a new multi-campus strategy that would keep the original school in Parker and create a sister school in Highlands Ranch. The intent was to have the sister school, originally marketed as NSA West, open with the same mission, vision, and educational program as North Star Academy in Parker.

The North Star Academy Board of Directors spent the next year and a half further developing this multi-campus strategy, working with experienced consultants from the charter school industry. In November 2008, the Board received the necessary approval from the Douglas County Board of Education and was on track to open the Highlands Ranch school in the fall of 2009.

Unfortunately, several things happened in a short period of time that forced the Board to postpone their opening for one year and discontinue the development of the multi-campus strategy. The state of the municipal bond market caused the abandonment of the initial bond financing plan. A new committee had to be created to identify other possible financing opportunities that would provide the necessary funds to acquire the intended facility and proceed with the renovation. Additionally, the Board was informed by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) that to receive necessary startup grant funding for their Highlands Ranch school, changes would be required to the intended governance and administrative structure, which challenged the feasibility of a multi-campus strategy.

As a result of these required changes, several members of the original founding team came back together to create a new plan to ensure the successful launch of the Highlands Ranch school. This team started down the path they had been down five years earlier - securing financing, acquiring a facility, recruiting students and parent volunteers, and ultimately, renaming the school.

As a result of some very creative strategies, an amazing group of parent volunteers, and lessons learned from their original school in Parker, the founding team successfully secured the necessary financing to acquire its facility and unveiled its new name to the community at a Ground Breaking ceremony on February 6, 2010.

The new Highlands Ranch school, now known as SkyView Academy, opened for its inaugural year on September 7, 2010, in its permanent home in Highlands Ranch at 6161 Business Center Drive.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

SkyView Academy Foundation

other names

SVA

Year Established

2010

Tax id (EIN)

27-3612126

Category

Education

Organization Size

Medium Organization

Address

6161 Business Center Drive
Highlands Ranch, CO 80130

Service areas

Douglas County, CO, US

Phone

303-471-8439

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