LISA students’ recognition in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program

We are happily announcing that two of our students,

Leslie Gray and Michelle Burton

have received recognition in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program in the fall of their

senior year. Of some 1.5 million program entrants who took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National

Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT), Leslie and Michelle are among the 50,000

highest-scoring participants who will be recognized in the fall of their senior year.

You can get more information about National Merit organization from www.nationalmerit.org

Congratulations Leslie Gray and Michelle Burton

LISA Academy has won the Division B Arkansas Science Olympiads amongst 14 teams. We will represent our state in the Nationals in May in Orlando, Florida.

Congratulations to our students and their coaches.

LISA Academy High School ranked 259th out of more than 1900 high schools in the nation according to Washington Post's 2014 America's Most Challenging High Schools list.

You can find the details by clicking here

Congratulations to LISA family. Thanks everyone who contributed to this success.

LISA Academy students participated in the inaugural Startup weekend sponsored by Nobel Impact and the Clinton School of Public Service. There were 12 schools and over 80 participants. The students presented their idea about online grocery delivery and did a fantastic job of developing and presenting it to the audience and judges. Erykah McClendon, Izabelle Harville, Chris Heredia, Bryanna Scruggs, Victoria Taylor, Maia Wilson participated.

Dear LISA parents/guardians,

This year is a special year for LISA Academy to celebrate. LISA Academy Public Charter Schools have been serving quality education for 10 years since 2004 and have been recognized as two of the best schools in Central Arkansas. We thank you for being a part of LISA family and for your support to our schools. Your support has been a key to our success.

We would like to invite you to join us to celebrate LISA Academy's 10th year with our parents/guardians, students, faculty and staff with a special event. We are looking forward to seeing you at our 10th year celebration.

Please RSVP for the event through here

Date: Monday, May 12th, 2014

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Place: Robinson Center - Downtown, Little Rock

Friday, April 25th from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
In the high school gym.
Dinner Begins at 5:30
Auction begins at 5:00
Talent Show at 6:00
Tickets are available thru the Offices or you can see Coach Copeland.

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LISA Academy has been rewarded by Arkansas Department of Education for being in the top 10% of all public schools in Arkansas in combined student performance, student academic growth, and graduation rate under criteria set forth by rule of the state board. The total amount of the award is $49,432.18.

Congratulations..

Dear LISA 8th grade parents/guardians,

We are very happy to introduce to you our new high school graduation plan called "Honors Graduation Plan". This plan provides opportunities for our students who have already completed Algebra I, Geometry and Biology courses in middle school to start taking AP courses in 9th grade, to take currently up to 21 AP courses in high school (the number may increase in the future), an opportunity for early graduation, and to receive an AP Capstone diploma.

Please find the attached document about the program. We are looking forward to preparing your students for college.

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On March 29th, LISA Academy student C. Hadden (6th Grade) qualified for the finals of the National History Bee, which will be held in Atlanta, GA on June 6-8.

He scored in the Top 10 at a regional competition held in Memphis, TN. This is a fantastic achievement for Cole, and LISA Academy is extremely proud of him. We wish him the best of luck at Nationals!

2013-2014 Mathcounts State competition was a complete success for LISA
Academy. Our school won the
first place in the State. Our mathletes had an outstanding
performance. All our Mathcounts Team Students (Leck Tang, Alice
Tang, Kelvin Kang, Henry Huang) placed in top 10. Leck Tang is the
2013-2014 mathcounts state champion. Kelvin Kang won the 3rd place.
Leck and Kelvin will be representing LISA Academy at the national
mathcounts competition that is going to be held in Orlando, FL in May
9th, 2014. Please congratulate all our mathletes who represented LISA
Academy in the state competition.
Qualified students for the State:
1.Leck Teng-8
2.Alice Tang-8
3.Kath Cui-8
4.Sahar Tariq-8
5.Chy Murali-8
6.Suraj Kalluri-8
7.Anska Moorjani
8.Samuel Park
9.Henry Huang-7
10.Michelle Xu-7
11.Kelvin Kang-6

Three LISA 6th grade students (J. Patel, A. Yin, and E. Ali) and Science teacher Ms. Ersoy were honored by Governor Bebee in Discovering Excellence in Arkansas event where 100 sixth grade Arkansas students participated in. The event was held at Museum of Discovery, Little Rock.

Ninety-four sixth graders from 34 schools across Arkansas spent the evening at Museum of Discovery for the second Discovering Excellence in Arkansas sponsored by Molex. Students visited and complete activities with STEM professionals from Molex, Lockheed Martin, Verizon Wireless, Caterpillar Inc., AT&T, Southwest Power Pool and Welspun.

Click to see pictures of the event on Museum of Discovery's Facebook page

LISA Academy Public Charter School's Annual Language Festival was held on January 24, 2014 at UALR Fine Arts building. This year's theme was ''The Art of Living Together''. Our students performed songs, poems, dances in Spanish and Turkish to celebrate the diversity at our school. Cultural Mexican and Turkish food was available before the program started. Awards were given to students who were selected 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Mexican Consulate Mr. David Manuel Preciado attended the program and gave a speech to the audience.

Visit our Facebook page to see more pictures at https://www.facebook.com/LISAAcademy

LISA Academy was happy to host the first Alumni Dinner 2014 on Tuesday January 7th! It was a successful start of the New Year and an opportunity to introduce our freshly formed Alumni Department. We were glad to see graduates of all classes since 2009. Former LISA students had a great chance to share their experiences at the wonderful dinner table and meet the representatives of the Alumni Department. We want to thank everyone who came to visit us this night and to those who created the friendly atmosphere and made the event possible. We are looking forward to seeing all of you in our upcoming events!

LISA Academy administrators and students visited Mayor Stodola in his office on January 8th, 2014. We thanked Mayor Stodola for his support of education and LISA Academy. Mayor Stodola and our students had good conversation regarding the LISA language festival and the Mayor's Youth Council.

We are thrilled to let you know that Lisa Academy High School made our list! Please check out http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/2013/americas-best-high-schools.html for the full list and related content.

Dear LISA family,

LISA Academy was placed first in Arkansas and 164th in the nation at Washington Post's High School Challenge.

America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year. A ratio of 1.000 means the school had as many tests as graduates.

You can click here to see the information on Washington Post