At Ivy Prep, a painful choice delayed

The students in Ivy Prep’s high school program were being taught in rented space, and mostly by teachers who patched in through a video feed.

Administrators said their reluctant decision to close was made for them: they wanted the “scholars,” what they call the students, to succeed. At Ivy Prep, that would not be able to happen.

Academic data, which Executive Director Alisha Thomas Morgan called the “final straw,” indicated only 23 percent of male high school students were passing one or more classes and 50 percent of the female students were passing one or more classes.