Arts and Athletic Center

The AACt now! Capital Campaign will raise $12.75 million for Community Preparatory School’s expansion and scholarship endowment – while also funding our Head of School search and providing ongoing support for the Annual Fund.

Throughout Community Preparatory School's history there has been one constant – the leadership and vision of co-founder and Head of School, Dan Corley. Nearly 40 years ago, Dan Corley sat in his living room with a group of parents and community leaders to create a middle school. He chose the name "Community" to emphasize parent, volunteer, and neighborhood participation – as well as the diversity of the student body. Parents selected "Preparatory" to stress academic commitment. In the fall of 1984, Community Preparatory School opened with 25 students and three teachers in rented classrooms at the John Hope Settlement House.