Eagle Heights Academy closing at year’s end

Eagle Heights Academy, a charter school on Youngstown’s South Side since 1998, is closing at the end of this school year, but plans are in place to open a new charter school in the same location at 1833 Market St. serving the same K-8 student demographic.

The state ordered Eagle Heights closed after it ranked in academic emergency for two years in a row on its state local report card.

The state must approve a charter for the new school that will replace it.

Read more on this story in Tuesday’s Vindicator.