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Overview
Welcome to Lugo-McGinness Academy
Lugo-McGinness Academy is a small, non-traditional academy that serves Charlottesville City Schools students in grades 9-12. Students may self-select or be referred for admission to the program.
Students attending the academy are offered personalized learning through blended and face-to-face instruction, small class size, field trips, Student Leadership Council, recreational basketball, a library, a gym, and a small garden. Lugo-McGinness Academy operates with four pillars:
- Be Courageous
- Be Respectful
- Be Responsible
- Be a Community Member
Along with curricular offerings and an academic program, the academy provides a supportive, trauma-responsive environment to meet students’ social and emotional needs.
Students Served
Students enrolled at Lugo-McGinness Academy may be referred by:
- Charlottesville High School administration
- Charlottesville City Schools’ Chief Academic Officer
- Parent or self-referral
- Charlottesville City School Board
Services Offered
Academic services offered:
- Individualized programs of course work
- Credit recovery
- Graduation acceleration
- Work experience/ vocational training
- Comprehensive counseling
- High school diplomas
Student support services offered:
- Behavior Intervention Specialist
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Student success coaching offered by National Counseling Group
- Regular field trips to locations such as Wildrock
Program Administrator:
Dr. Lamont K. Trotter
341 11th St. NW
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 245-2406
trottel1@charlottesvilleschools.org
Mission
Lugo-McGinness Academy engages young adults to build a vision for their future through supportive relationships and meaningful mastery-based learning experiences.
Vision
Young adults own their learning to ignite personal and community transformation.
Goal
Lugo-McGinness’ main goal is to commit to continuously evolving to ensure students feel welcome and respected within a culturally responsive learning environment and healing-centered engagement
History of Lugo-McGinness Academy
After a long history of alternative education, Charlottesville City Schools moved the program to a new, renovated facility in 2014. At that time, the program was renamed Lugo-McGinness Academy in honor of Alicia Lugo and Rebecca F. McGinness, two longtime Charlottesville educators, community leaders, and child advocates. Alicia Lugo attended Charlottesville schools during segregation and then graduated from Hampton University. She returned to Charlottesville, where she taught and then served eleven years on the Charlottesville City School Board, including five years as board chair. Also a Charlottesville native, Rebecca Fuller McGinness attended Hampton and taught at the now-closed, then-segregated Jefferson School for more than forty years. Both women set a high standard of excellence which the faculty and staff of Lugo-McGinness strive to achieve.