Kissimmee Charter Academy
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Kissimmee Charter Academy (KCA) is a Kindergarten-8th grade charter school
Charter school
Charter schools are primary or secondary schools that receive public money but are not subject to some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter...

 in Kissimmee
Kissimmee
Kissimmee is the name of several things in the U.S. state of Florida:*Kissimmee, Florida *Kissimmee City Street Railway*Kissimmee Kreatures *Kissimmee Utility Authority...

,Florida. The elementary school mascot is Koalas and the middle school mascot is a Timber Wolf
Timber Wolf
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History

The school originally opened in July 2000 as an elementary school
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...

. In 2005, the school was expanded to 6th Grade, and eventually included 7th and 8th Grade in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

Building

KCA has 2 main buildings connected by a walkway. The first building, on the left contains classes for Pre-K to 1st Grade and also contains the nurse's office and 2 playgrounds, one for Pre-K and Kindergarten
Kindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...

students and the other playground for the other grades. The middle area between the 2 buildings houses a HOPS garden (a.k.a the Bus area), a field, and a shaded area that was built in 2008. The second building is called the Main Building and houses the grade 3-8 classrooms. The building contains the Main Office used for registration, volunteer hour submission, and etc. The second building also contains a Butterfly Garden, the Cafeteria
Cafeteria
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, the Library
Library
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, Computer Lab, teacher's lounge, basketball court, and soccer field withgoals. The basketball court, previously larger, was moved for construction of portables for music, art, and 2nd Grade classrooms, but the court has modified 7 feet rims to 10 feet rims(regulation size) and has also reduced from 4 basketball hoops to 2 baskeetball hoops and has a smaller overall size. There is also a fence in the portables area designed to prevent students from running into the lake (filled with alligators, as presumed by some Kindergarten rumor). There is a hole next to the bushes on the sideline of the soccer field that can be crawled under the barbed-wire fence to the lake.
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