One of the Charter Schools in Waco is looking to the future.

Rapoport Academy shared some new initiatives Wednesday afternoon that plan to not only impact students, but their families and the Waco business community.

In the next three years, RAPS hopes to give every student the chance to work with Waco businesses to gain experience in different fields and connect students with their community.

“Every student in our school needs the ability to be deeply engaged with a community business to make an impact to that business, but also to make an impact on that student’s future,” said Dr. Alexis Neumann, Superintendent for Rapoport Academy.

In the last 20 years, Rapoport Academy has grown as an institution, but their mission remains: to prepare all students for college, career and life.

“We are driven by student passions, we are not driven by a single assessment, although that is a piece of what we do as a public school, but we are driven by passions for kiddos, helping them figure out where they want to go what thet want to do,” said Dr. Neumann.

The school’s partnerships with MCC, TSTC and Waco businesses allows students to find what they want to do in life and go for it head on.

“It helps me get a head start, so if I want to take this anywhere else I already know what I want to do and I know how to do it,” said Jaylon Perry, Junior at Rapoport Academy.

Perry has already kickstarted his future by taking dual credit at TSTC for his cybersecurity major. He’s doing that while working with a Waco company called Gold and Grain to express his creativity.

“Helping me build my brand and finding out what I like to do and expressing my creativity. And just working with materials from wood to metal, different things such as wood crafting or lazer engraving, just things like that,” said Perry.

Through that work experience, Perry created a topology map of Lake Michigan made entirely out of wood.

“Rapoport is a forward-moving school and they have a lot of things in the horizon that helps the community but more so the students and just get their name out there, get confidence in themselves, confidence in their entrepreneurship, their brand, their creativity and the head start you get in college is what you need,” said Perry.

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— KWKT