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I Promise School (IPS) is a public elementary school in Akron, Ohio. Opened in 2018, it is supported by the LeBron James Family Foundation and specifically aimed at at-risk children. Opening with students attending grades three and four, the school became fully operational in 2022, teaching grades one through eight.
Dec 30, 2021 · In July of 2018, the LeBron James Family Foundation and Akron Public Schools officially opened the doors of the I PROMISE School with a mission to wrap around the most at-risk students and families in Akron.
The LeBron James Family Foundation’s work is rolled into the I PROMISE School, an Akron Public School dedicated to students who are falling behind and in danger of falling through the cracks.
Sep 28, 2021 · LeBron James and Akron Public Schools opened the I Promise School with big fanfare in 2018. A new documentary chronicles its inaugural year.
Aug 4, 2023 · Akron native NBA superstar LeBron James, Akron Public Schools and the LeBron James Family Foundation started the unprecedented now full-capacity third-to-eighth-grade school as an extension of the I Promise student program to raise graduation rates.
- Kelly Petryszyn
Aug 3, 2018 · That’s the view that greeted 240 at-risk third- and fourth-graders — the first students in a unique partnership among NBA superstar LeBron James, his LeBron James Family Foundation, and his hometown of Akron, Ohio — when the doors opened Monday morning, their first day of school.
Sep 28, 2021 · CLEVELAND, Ohio -- LeBron James and Akron Public Schools opened the I Promise School with great fanfare on July 30, 2018.
