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Smith Leadership Academy's boys celebrate the team's 2010 state's Charter School Basketball League championship!
Smith Leadership Academy's boys celebrate the team's 2010 state's Charter School Basketball League championship!
A happy group of 2010 graduates of the Smith Leadership Academy celebrate after receiving their diplomas.
These Smith Leadership Academy students are participating in the school’s Opening Day ceremony
A Smith Leadership Academy student defines “compassion,” one of the school’s core values and an integral part of the school’s mission.
Smith Leadership Academy students listen attentively to the teacher during a lesson period.
"Learning today...leading tomorrow" is our motto for teaching and nurturing Smith Leadership Academy students for success in the future. The Academy operates 190 days per year and offers an extended school day program, running from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day except Friday - an early release day to provide professional development time for teachers. The Academy also has a mandatory summer session for incoming 6th graders in which they receive remedial instruction in math and English as well as a tutorial on the high expectations and seven core values that are integral to the culture of the school. To find out more about Smith Leadership, click here.
Graduation Photos are available! You can buy prints directly from this website: www.elisif.smugmug.com/events
The final report from the Coordinated Program Review that was conducted by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in March 2011 is available to the public in the front office upon request.
We welcome parents, community members, business people, professional athletes and artists among others who are willing to share their talents with our students. Here are a few areas in which the Academy could use help:

Donald Bland, an Academy grad headed to Bentley University on a full scholarship, is a member of the school's first graduating class which is starting college this fall.
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In compliance with Federal and State Equal Employment Laws, Smith Leadership Academy CPS affords equal opportunity to all applicants regardless of race, color, sex, age, religious creed, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, ex-offender status, prior psychiatric treatment or military status.