Leroy Greene Academy (usually abbreviated "LGA") is an American public high school and middle school in

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, serving grades 6–12 in the

Natomas Unified School District Natomas Unified School District is located in northwestern Sacramento, California. It is the main school district of Natomas, a neighborhood of Sacramento. Chris Evans is the Superintendent. William Young is the Deputy Superintendent of Admin ...

History

Leroy Greene Academy was first opened on August 15, 2012. It was named after the politician Leroy F. Greene in honor of his contribution to public schools with the School Facilities Act of 1998. The school released the following statement on why the

decided to name Leroy Greene Academy after him:

Leroy F. Greene Middle School

Leroy Greene Academy was preceded by Leroy F. Greene Middle School, which was opened on July 1, 1980, serving grades 6-8. It was closed by the

in 2010 as a cost-saving measure and also due to the school's failure to reach academic benchmarks. Leroy F. Greene was closed instead of an elementary school. The Natomas Buzz wrote: In 2009, Leroy F. Greene won the PTA Healthy Lifestyles award.

Leroy Greene Academy

Two years after Leroy F. Greene middle school closed, and after an extensive $7.2 million renovation project, Leroy Greene Academy was established as NUSD's first dependent

charter school A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of auto ...

. The school opened with Angela Herrera as its principal and Carolyn Walker as its assistant principal. During its first school year (2012–13), it served 7th and 8th graders and increased its maximum grade each year until it reached 12th grade (in 2015, the school's programs expanded to include 6th grade as well). The charter petition theoretically allowed for Leroy Greene Academy to serve grades

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, but to this day it only serves grades 6–12. Lga cfi

During the 2017–18 school year, the library was removed and replaced with the "Center for Innovation" to better reflect the school's business program.

Academics

Leroy Greene's two main programs of study are

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and

business Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

. It has elective classes that include

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, and

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(science, technology, engineering, art, and math). During the 2018–19 school year, CAASPP test results showed that 47.5% of students met or exceeded the standard for ELA and 24.4% of students met or exceeded the standard for

math Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

. Only 24.55% of students did not meet the standard for ELA, and 43.2% did not meet the standard for

. According to data collected during the 2019–20 school year, Leroy Greene's graduation rate is 100%.

Demographics

According to a report on the 2019–20 school year, Leroy Greene's ethnic demographics are 13.3%

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.2%

Asian Asian may refer to: * Items from or related to the continent of Asia: ** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia ** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia ** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...

, 3.6%

Filipino Filipino may refer to: * Something from or related to the Philippines ** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines. ** Filipinos, people who are citizens of th ...

, 45.2%

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, 1.0%

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, 19.8%

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, and 7.3% two or more races. As of November 2021, there are 778 students enrolled at Leroy Greene Academy and 66 English language learners, making up 8.5% of the total population.

Athletics

Leroy Greene is a member of the

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and offers sports for middle school and high school. Sports for boys include

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

, cross country,

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

, and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

. Sports for girls include

, cross country,

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

, and

References

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