- Initial number - 590 approx. but have lost a few; Current stands at 587
- 7th highest average in NC; Raleigh Charter: 90% (2nd highest); 
- Percentage tested for SAT: 81% due to Covid etc; students are college-competitive; Look at who is taking test and who are not; Why? Overall, commendable performance
- Survey of teachers: Criteria for opening - 2 levers. One is concern for safety of teachers and students. Other is - how much effort can we make on education to maintain the quality.? How do we bring a balance. Weighted average about 2 - Staff feels that it may not be safe to return. Continue to improve the educational product
- Survey of parents: Good - 2 things we see: Homework is a lot (make the process easier); Other is sense of desolation - they cannot see friends, interact with everyone etc
- Staff is quite exhausted! Working very hard to provide their best - being innovative with new activities. Doing all they can - to be resourceful and effective
- Charter renewal: start the process on this work
- Develop a plan for brining teachers and then students back; looking into it and it may happen later in October only if feasible; 

- Suggestion: Consider hiring third party for surveys and have them present the data to the school

- Operational goals driven by pandemic
- Make sure teachers are supported
- Apply lessons learned last year to think strategically for a longer term
- Develop facilities more to make it attractive for prospective students and future of the school

- 11th and 12th graders: Gained significantly
- Use comparison with other schools; Continuing to do that - traditional and non-traditional schools
- Equity and Excellence: increasing; overall 77.6%
- Focus is to assess remote learning and teaching

- Focus items: Gift Cards; Preliminary estimate: $40k for the year (school lunches) - more than what has been done in the past; proposal to keep this program for a longer time
- Landscaping improvements
- Online library resources
- Ideal: have a strategic development plan by having a work session

- Still looking for 2 potential Board members; prefer to have 12 Board members
 

-  Contact Gary Rogers to share your preference of in-person meeting or remote for the Retreat
- One  location that can be considered: Frontier Building
- Retreat Date: Friday, October 23, 2020 from 8 am - 12 pm