Tapestry Charter School is a K-12

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, United States. The current director is Eric Klapper.

History

Tapestry Charter School is an arts-integrated, expeditionary learning, tuition-free public school. Tapestry received approval from the State University of New York Board of Trustees to open in September 2001. The school grew one grade per year, becoming a full K-12 school in the 2009-10 school year with 515 students. Ninety-eight percent of the first senior class graduated in June 2010. All seniors in Tapestry's graduating classes were accepted to college.

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