Miles Ahead Charter School focuses on teaching the ‘whole child’ with a modern approach

Miles Ahead Charter School in Cobb County Georgia grew out of a need that Kolt Bloxson saw as schools in her area closed and merged.

POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. — On the first day of school last August, Kolt Bloxson cried. After four years of raising money, building an executive board, hiring teachers, creating a cutting-edge curriculum and handling an abundance of other responsibilities, she opened the doors to the Miles Ahead Charter School just outside Atlanta. 

As the students, who are referred to as “scholars,” milled about the refurbished halls of a former church auxiliary building, the manifestation of Bloxson’s dream became a living, breathing thing. The magnitude of it all moved her. 

“It was like when your child is born,” Bloxson, a Boston native, whose son’s name is — you guessed it — Miles.

But the tears did not last. “There was breakfast to be served. And lunch,” she said. “The reality of what was taking place took over.”

Bloxson, 39, was an Atlanta Public Schools educator for 18 years, but founding a school was not part of her career goals. Her zeal for children in general, and educating them in particular, however, were the paramount reasons she embarked on a new journey. 

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