Quick Facts: Orenda Education

Founded: August, 1995

Type of Organization: Private 501 © 3 Not-for-Profit Corporation

The Need: To enhance our American public education system through improved teaching, innovation in instructional methods, and integration of technology to personalize learning and create more engaged students.

Our Mission: To create new and innovative school choice opportunities in Central Texas for families seeking an alternative to the large, more traditional public school system.

Our Vision: To be a leader in the school choice movement, providing life-changing academic instruction to students who may not reach their academic and human potential in the large, more traditional public school system.

Our Purpose: The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. Orenda Education is also the not-for-profit sponsoring entity for the Orenda Charter School District, an “open- enrollment charter school” district. A charter school is a public school sponsored by a private, not-for-profit organization.

Charter School Name: Orenda Charter School District

Charter Awarded 2001: Generation 7

Annual Operating Budget: $19 Million

Total Employees: 180

Total School District Enrollment: 1,900 (SY 2019-2020)

Average State Funding Received Per Student: $8,415

Average Annual Local Tax Revenues: Zero. Public charter schools do not have taxing authority in Texas.

Orenda Charter School District owns and operates the following schools:

• Gateway College Prep School - Georgetown, TX
• Gateway Tech School - Georgetown, TX
• New Horizons School - Goldthwaite, TX
• Nolan Creek School - Belton, TX
• Kingsland School - Kingsland, TX