Helping Students THRIVE

Thrive Academy, a school designed to better serve at-risk children while they stay on campus during the week, recently broke ground on a project that will allow the facility to extend its services to additional students. HOPE provided $8 million in New Market Tax Credits for the $13.2 million new academic center. The project includes a gymnasium, an on-campus health care center and a commercial kitchen. “For the first time since our founding, our students will learn in rooms that were designed to be classrooms,” said Thrive Academy Executive Director Sarah Broome. “We are thrilled to finally be able to offer our students a physical building to match their needs.” The academy serves a community with a nearly 53 percent poverty rate, providing students with a social worker and mental health services.