Page 12 - Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens - September '24

Page 12, Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens
Building Dreams, Shaping Futures: Community Celebrates

Grand Opening Of New Charter School, Bodwell Academy

The community celebrated innovation and learning at nurses’ station, a high school
the official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony of club room, sensory rooms, a
Bodwell Academy in Riviera Beach on Monday, Aug. 12. large open patio deck, a turf-
Bodwell Academy is The Arc of Palm Beach County’s covered courtyard, a state-
new, tuition-free charter school that provides education and of-the-art playground, and
life care services to students ages 3 to 22 who have varied six individual classrooms
levels of intellectual and orthopedic disabilities. The school for preschool, middle school,
is a $2.5 million renovation and remodeling of The Arc’s and high school students.
Courim Center. The Arc of Palm Beach
After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, guests toured the school County is excited to begin a
to view its new features, including a media and library room, a new era in education!
Photos courtesy of Tracey Eliza (Bodwell Academy
Benson Photography student)

Frankie (Bodwell Academy student) Bodwell Academy on page 13

Teressa Holbrook, Debra Ricci, Margaret Pearson, Aaron
Menitoff, Julie Larson

A College Preparatory Catholic High School

Our Vision is to build life’s champions
Richard Bodwell, Pamela Payne, Kurt Gehring, Bairbre Flood through FAITH, ACADEMICS, SCAN TO LEARN MORE
SERVANT LEADERSHIP and a
STRONG FAMILY ATMOSPHERE.
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West Palm Beach, FL
(561) 683-6266

Karen Bodwell, Joyce Kruger, Richard Bodwell, William
Kruger

Debra Ricci, Margaret Pearson, Kurt Gehring