Eastern University Academy Charter School will begin its first semester in September with 102 students from grades seven and nine.  The Charter School, located in East Falls, plans to add a grade each year to reach a capacity of 350 students between grades seven and twelve.  The students will be given the opportunity to earn as many as 60 college credits by the time they graduate from the Charter School.  Each student will have a program tailored to his or her particular interest. Student will work with teachers in developing a personalized learning plan, including an external internship in a related field.

"We are elated. It's been a long time coming for Eastern," said Yvonne Turner, Director of the Early College High School Program at Eastern University.
The students at Eastern University Academy Charter School will experience a holistic, college-integrated learning community dedicated to the education of each student in the context of his/her unique interests. The school will provide students with an environment of excitement and early expectation through an integrative, discovery-based learning experience that will develop logical reasoning, critical thinking, and purpose driven global citizens. The school will graduate self-directed, self-aware learners, many of whom will have successfully mastered college level work.

Eastern University began the application process for the development of the Charter School in 2006.  In addition to EU’s Charter School, six other charter schools were given the greenlight by the Philadelphia School District; they include Arise Academy Charter School, Franklin Towne Charter School, KIPP West Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School, Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School, and Tacony Academy Charter School for a September opening.
Eastern University Academy Charter School is affiliated with the University’s School for Social Change. For more information about the Charter School, visit: http://eastern.edu/academy.

The School for Social Change provides students with a context for learning that is urban-based, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, research-focused, faith-based, and steeped in field experience. The School exists to prepare Christian agents of change — compassionate professionals and activist scholars — to use their professions and their lives to transform urban communities around the world.  For more information about the School for Social Change, visit: http://eastern.edu/academic/ccgps/ssc/index.html

Eastern is a Christian University located at 1300 Eagle Road in St. Davids, PA. It currently enrolls about 4,000 students in its undergraduate, graduate, urban, Seminary, international and accelerated adult programs.  Eastern University integrates faith, reason and justice into all of its programs and courses of study. For more information, visit www.eastern.edu.