Village Academy Schools history

In 1981, The Village School outgrew its facility and moved to a larger campus on Memorial Drive.

In 1984, the first of three new buildings opened, providing space for 25 classrooms, a gymnasium, a stage, a computer room, a music room and a library.

In the fall of 1990, the first phase of a 7-acre (28,000 m) campus, Village Academy, opened in Powell, Ohio.

A grass-roots effort started in 1998, coordinated by the Delray Beach chapter of Men Against Destruction - Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder (MAD DADS), in reaction to poor academic achievement by the county’s minority students.

When Village Academy opened on SW 12th Avenue, Delray Beach, in 2000, it was the first new Palm Beach County public school in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in over 25 years.

In 2001 the City of Delray Beach was honored with the “All-America City” award for creating programs to assist its youth, low-income senior citizens, and students and families of the Village Academy, a school for at-risk students.

In 2008, The Village School opened its high school program, with more than 50 founding 9th graders.

In 2011, the pre-kindergarten and young kindergarten programs re-joined the main campus, following the completion of the Griffin Hall building.

With each subsequent year, an additional grade was added, with the first senior class graduating in 2012.