Charter school has a home of its own
Published: Tue, Aug. 26, 2008 12:30AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- A charter school that began 10 years ago with fewer than 100 students in a small shopping center opened its own building Monday with more than 485 students.
The new K-to-12 Woods Charter School building, which has 65,000 square feet, is on Andrews Store Road, near Fearrington Village in northern Chatham County.
The school's 19 acres were donated by Newland Communities of San Diego, which is developing the Briar Chapel project near the new school. The gift grew out of negotiations between Newland officials and the Chatham County Board of Commissioners.
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For the first time, Woods has a gymnasium, a stage for school gatherings and a soccer field, as well as computer, biology and chemistry labs.
Since it was founded in 1998, Woods had been in Cole Park Plaza shopping center, about three miles south of Chapel Hill on U.S. 15-501.
Last year, Woods seniors had an average SAT score of 1640, the sixth-highest for a public school in North Carolina.
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