Legal Prep Charter Academy is a free, open-enrollment public charter school network founded in Chicago and now expanding to Las Vegas. Our schools combine rigorous academics with an immersive law-themed program that connects students to real attorneys, judges, and business professionals. Through partnerships with local firms, corporate legal departments, universities, and civic organizations, students gain hands-on experience in legal reasoning, debate, and civic leadership while developing the social-emotional and academic skills necessary for college and career success.

Legal Prep’s culture emphasizes restorative practices, community engagement, and a belief that education is a pathway to justice and empowerment. We strive to be a hub of opportunity, where families feel welcome, students find purpose, and the broader Las Vegas community sees a model of excellence and equity in action.

Nexus High School is a proposed public charter school designed around the principles of competency-based education. Instead of moving through courses at a fixed pace, students advance when they demonstrate mastery, ensuring they graduate with the skills and habits of mind needed for success beyond high school. Our learning model blends rigorous academics with authentic, project-based experiences that connect classroom learning to real-world contexts. Families, community members, mentors, teachers, and students are partners in the learning process, working together to ensure that each student develops meaningful skills.

The Ivy School is a proposed public charter school slated to serve Las Vegas families beginning in Fall 2027. Initially serving Grades K-2, we will expand to a full K-8 capacity, pioneering a Brain-Based Museum School model that bridges the gap between neuroscience and the classroom. While our programming is designed for the benefit of every child, our curriculum is intentionally engineered to support students with language-based disabilities, such as Dyslexia, ensuring equitable access to high-quality education.

Our model is built on three transformative pillars we call The P3 Framework—Power, Passion, and Purpose—to ensure 4- or 5-star caliber outcomes.

POWER (Foundational Mastery): We utilize a multi-sensory approach—incorporating sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound—to align with neuroscience principles of how the brain learns best. This “Power” phase directly supports our performance on the Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA), specifically targeting the Language, Literacy, and Cognitive domains. By building a strong sensory foundation, we ensure students are on track for Read-By-Grade-3 (RBG3) proficiency targets.

PASSION (Inquiry-Based Exploration): We move beyond the four walls of the classroom, taking students to museums and historical sites to blend object-based inquiry with Project-Based Learning (PBL). We partner students with Griots (community experts) to align academic projects with individual passions. This high-engagement model is designed to not maximize attendance and meet our goal of a chronic absenteeism rate below 10%, but to also help students identify their passions.

PURPOSE (Community Leadership): The Ivy School transforms into a living museum where students become the experts, presenting their learning to the community. This builds the “Purpose” needed for students to advocate for themselves and their neighbors. By blending the Science of Human Behavior and the Science of Compassion, we foster intrinsic motivation and emotional literacy, using restorative justice practices to decrease negative behaviors and build resilient, socially just leaders.

The Ivy School is committed to being a 4- or 5-star caliber school. Our governing board will provide rigorous oversight, using SMART goals and state-verified metrics to monitor academic growth, financial viability, and organizational health. We ensure that every student—including those from historically underserved groups—reaches their full potential.

Beacon Academy of Nevada (BANV) is a State Public Charter School serving students throughout Clark County. Enrollment is limited to students (16 – 21 years old) who qualify for alternative education as defined by NRS 385A.740. Qualifying criteria include being severely credit deficient, suspended, expelled, under court supervision, and/or having an IEP. Almost all (94%) of students enrolled at BANV are alternative education students, of whom 86.7% qualify for free or reduced lunch, 75% are credit deficient, 19% are adjudicated or have demonstrated chronic behaviors, 24% are eligible for special education services, and 24% of students qualify under multiple conditions.

Beacon Academy operates two campuses, the East Campus is located at 1800 East Sahara Avenue and the West Campus is located at 7360 West Flamingo Road.

At Beacon Academy, education begins with a focus on supporting our students. We provide a personalized, safe and respectful learning environment that fosters the conditions to be academically successful. Beacon Academy’s support system of instructional and Student Support Services staff, help students work through and overcome barriers to achieving their academic success. Our Social Workers, Counselor, College and Career Advisor and teachers work together with each student to provide social and emotional support in addition to the tools required to transition from high school to college and/or career.

• Personalized Learning Plans: Each student is unique. We use a combination of academic history and MAP test results to determine the proper placement and graduation plan for each student.
• Individualized Learning: Our students receive personalized attention and instruction from highly qualified teachers within small classroom environments. Students benefit from regular small group instruction and small classroom sizes.
• Flexible & Self-Paced: In order to overcome social, emotional and economic barriers, we have an environment where students can complete high school with flexibility. Students create their campus schedule every nine weeks. This flexibility provides a scheduled time for students to commit and dedicate time and effort to academics.
• Continuous Learning: Beacon Academy offers classes year round. Summer school is free for all students. Students have the opportunity to continue their progress towards graduation without interruption to catch up on credits or work at an accelerated pace throughout the year.
• Growth & Assessments: Our students are assessed using MAP reading and mathematics tests three times per year. This regular monitoring allows us to remediate or accelerate a students academic plan. Students also participate in required state testing.

We are unwaveringly dedicated to putting scholars on the path to college. We offer a rigorous literacy focus and ambitious reading goals. Sage Collegiate also offers an Enrichment program featuring coding, ASL, dance, music, and civic engagement. Every scholar holds the potential for achieving both exceptional behavior and academic excellence. We lead by example, educate, and maintain elevated standards for success for all scholars. We strike a balance of reliable routines, predictable practices, and joyous celebration. A partnership with Raise the Future lays the foundation for socialization and emotional management. Sage Collegiate families are deeply committed to the success of their scholars. We provide clear guidance on the roles and responsibilities that families play in the collaborative effort to prepare scholars for a college-bound future.

We believe ALL students and families deserve access to innovative, effective, and proven models of education to realize and unlock their potential. Vegas Vista Academy graduates will find future success as Inquisitive and Research-Based Critical Thinkers; Effective and Courageous Communicators; Socially Conscious and Community-Minded Leaders; and Goal-Oriented, Resolute and Motivated Lifelong Learners. With a student-centered focus, Vegas Vista Academy aims to be a community center of lifelong learning, strong support, and full social services for all of our stakeholders. Together, we will work to effect lasting positive change in our community.

The curricular approach and educational philosophy employed at Explore Academy is based on three core ideals: increased student accountability using a standards-driven system in course design and academic reporting, selectivity and student choice for all classes to promote both a customized and individualized form of education, and college preparation through the implementation of a curriculum which increasingly resembles and simulates college academics in structure, rigor, and content.

The school’s innovation is based on the premise that individuals best succeed when they are internally motivated through the power of personal choice, and that by offering a customized educational system where they can create their own curricular pathways, all students will show greater levels of success.

Equipo Academy is a 6-12 college-prep public school for students in East Las Vegas.

The Commitment to Excellence. All students, families, and teachers commit to these high expectations as founders of Equipo Academy. By upholding these expectations, every student will work to and through the college of their dreams and become leaders and changemakers in the East Las Vegas community.

Founded by a 14-year Clark County School District veteran teacher, Teach For America Corps member, and Nevada Building Excellent Schools Fellow, Nevada Rise opened its doors in Fall 2018 to serve students and families in East Las Vegas. Part of the school’s focus is on character development, parent engagement, and data-driven instruction. Nevada Rise plans to grow a grade level per year until it is a fully-enrolled kindergarten through fifth grade school.

At Nevada Rise Academy, we believe that every child, regardless of demographics or socioeconomic status, should have the opportunity to choose college and should have access to the foundation that will make that choice possible. We begin building that foundation on the first minute of the first day of kindergarten.

Futuro Academy, founded by Clark County School District veteran teacher, Teach For America Alumni, and Nevada’s first Building Excellent Schools Fellow, opened its doors in Fall 2017 in East Las Vegas. The Futuro model focuses on quality instruction and the use of data to teach strategically and support every student. Futuro is growing a grade level per year until it is a fully-enrolled kindergarten through eighth grade school.

Our model is inspired by the highest performing public charter schools in the nation.