Explore Academy
Explore Academy Grew 612% in a Decade. Then 2026 Happened.
Explore Academy opened in 2014 with a narrow pitch: a high school in Albuquerque where students pick short themed seminars instead of following a fixed course sequence. It enrolled 199 students in the...
Six Years After COVID, 93 Districts Still Haven't Recovered
The pandemic was supposed to be a temporary shock. Albuquerque lost 6,684 students between 2019 and 2021, an extraordinary loss for any two-year period. But the five years since have been worse: APS s...