This August, ScholarMade Achievement Place of Arkansas, a public charter school system, will open its first school in the historic James Mitchell School on South Battery Street in Little Rock.

The Ivy Hill Academy of Scholarship will feature cutting-edge teaching and learning spaces, state-of-the-art technology and spaces for future community partnerships. The school will focus on preparing children to be self-confident, intellectually inquisitive, emotionally intelligent and academically competent.

It aims to use a personalized learning model with a social-emotional intelligence curriculum, academic parent-teacher teams and community and place-based learning opportunities. Check out photos of the renovated space below, and for more information, visit ScholarMade.org.

A classroom in the renovated historic James Mitchell School, now Ivy Hill Academy of Scholarship.

The historic lobby of Ivy Hill Academy of Scholarship.

The school is part of a public charter school system.