Old Town Academy K-8 Charter is a free California public school located near historic Old Town, San Diego. The school is operated by the Old Town Academy Foundation, a non-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting excellence in public education for all San Diego students.
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Please consider a donation to our general fund. All donations are tax-deductible.
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Kiwanis Club of San Diego Music Lab (K-8); Seminar-Orchestra Room (K-8)
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Imagine a free public school where every child learns to program computers, starting in Kindergarten with his or her own robot ….
K-1 “Roamer,” 2-5 “Racer” Robotics Program: Math & Science Olympics!
6th-8th Lego Mindstorms & Botball Robotics: Math & Science Olympics!
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Imagine a free public school where every child participates in a Seminar Program …
Touchstones Seminar: The lost arts of active reading, listening, speaking, and thinking.
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Old Town Academy teachers and staff provide a free, world-class education to 250 children in grades K through 8. The school must pay rent for its campus and receives far less in state funding than it costs to educate each student *. The school relies on donations to make up the difference between and that support is especially important this year. Thank you to all our donors for their support of OTA.
*Compare with the average per-child public school funding trend over the last 40 years. According to Waiting for Superman, (the award-winning documentary about the importance of charter schools in the lives of five families in different US cities) “from 1971 to today, America has gone from spending an average of $4,300 per student to $9,000 per student, (adjusting for inflation [note: this figure applies to traditional public schools, CA charter public schools receive far less than $9000 per child])…”
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Old Town Academy K-8
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