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A Colorado school group has applied to bring a new charter school to Fort Mill.

Ascent Classical Academies is a tuition-free, K-12 charter school model. Ascent has submitted applications for four new South Carolina campuses. The first could open next year.

The four sites are in Fort Mill, Charleston, Greenville and Chapin. Ascent submitted applications to the South Carolina Department of Education naming the Charter Institute at Erskine as sponsor. The institute is in Columbia, S.C.

Derec Shuler, executive director of Ascent, said in an announcement that as a South Carolina native it’s exciting to work with area parents and communities on a new education option. The goal is education beyond just college and career readiness. One that prepares students to be happy and flourish.

Shuler said the school began as parents searching for a traditional academic experience focused on reason and virtue development.

“Seeing our own children thrive in classical schools has led us to continue working to provide these opportunities to more families,” Shuler said.

Public charter schools are non-religious, nonprofit schools that form and operate in South Carolina with the sponsorship of a public school district, the state charter school district or an institution of higher learning. They can vary considerably in grades and programs offered.

This school year there are 87 charter schools operating in South Carolina. Only 16 of those schools include kindergarten through high school senior level courses. Almost all of the area charter schools are in Rock Hill.

York Preparatory Academy and Riverwalk Academy in Rock Hill are full K-12 schools. Sponsored by the Rock Hill School District, the Palmetto School is a high school program. Legion Collegiate Academy in Rock Hill offers high school grades.

Discovery Charter of Lancaster offers K-5.

Some charter schools have well established histories. Yet not all succeed.

There have been 46 schools chartered in South Carolina since 1996 that have closed. Many of them just two or three years after receiving the charter. Children’s School at Sylvia Circle is the only one on that list based in the Rock Hill region.

A new student enrollment freeze has been enacted at three schools within the Fort Mill School District, officials said this week.

FORT MILL, S.C. (WBTV) - A new student enrollment freeze has been enacted at three schools within the Fort Mill School District, officials said this week.

In an announcement on Wednesday, the district said that new students who would typically be assigned to attend Gold Hill Elementary, Gold Hill Middle and Pleasant Knoll Middle schools will instead be redirected to different schools.

The district said the enrollment freeze comes as part of an effort to maintain favorable student-teacher ratios in all schools and limit overcrowding in current buildings.

Officials said the freezes were necessary due to the growing student population, and will allow class sizes to remain at acceptable levels without overloading building capacities.

Students initially zoned to be enrolled at Gold Hill Elementary will instead attend Orchard Park Elementary.

Those who would have attended Gold Hill Middle will now be enrolled at Banks Trail Middle, and those who would have gone to Pleasant Knoll Middle will now go to either Springfield Middle or Banks Trail Middle, depending on where they will go to high school.

Students using bus transportation will remain on their assigned bus and travel to their assigned school each day. The district will shuttle students to and from their home to school to their assigned school each day.

The freeze does not impact any students currently enrolled in any of the affected schools, only those who enroll after the freeze has been enacted.

This is a tactic the district has used throughout the years as Fort Mill grows.

“It has changed a lot,” Sharon Salisbury, who has worked as a real estate agent in Fort Mill for 15 years, told WBTV. “A lot of goat farms turning into neighborhoods, a lot of schools being built.”

Salisbury says families move to Fort Mill for the school district.

“Parents will say they want an elementary or middle school in particular for their kid, but we can’t guarantee that,” Salisbury said. “They can change the boundaries, they can have freezes.”

Joe Burke with the Fort Mill School District says this is the fastest growing school district in South Carolina per capita.

He says they’re doing everything they can to keep up with the growth, without causing headaches for families.

“Students can still ride their normal bus to their zoned school,” Burke said. “We shuttle them to the other school and same thing in reverse at the end of the day.”

Some parents who already have students enrolled in these schools look at the enrollment freeze as a positive move.

“It’s that, or put more kids in the classroom, and obviously I’d prefer not there to be 50 kids in a classroom so that my kids are getting a quality education,” Toby Stephens, who has two children at Gold Hill Elementary School, said. “That’s why we’re such a good school district, because our kids are getting individualized education.”

At least one new family stopped by the district office Thursday morning after learning their child would have to go to a different school than they planned for. They told WBTV they bought their house based on the school and they were not happy to hear about the freeze.

Employees at the district are working with these families to answer their questions.

Related: S.C. School Report Cards showing improvement, despite pandemic-related disruptions

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What if twice as many homes and apartments as are in Fort Mill today were squeezed in among what’s already built in York and Lancaster counties?

Now, think of those new homes and apartments as if they’re already on the way.

There’s no clear trend in the number of new homes and apartments approved in the region since the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is one consensus. A whole lot more homes and apartments are coming.

The Herald reached out to public officials in hotbed growth areas just south of the state line to see what’s coming. We combined that data with recent reports of projects now in the works.

Conclusion: Some areas are approving more new homes than ever. Some aren’t.

A picture emerges in York and Lancaster counties where decisions already made will further alter the local landscape. Even by a conservative estimate, those areas have well more than 20,000 homes, townhomes or apartments that are approved, but aren’t yet built.

Here’s a roundup of what we found:

Fort Mill residential growth has been among the highest in the region for more than a decade. The more than 24,000 residents in 2020 is well more than double the 2010 count, at fewer than 11,000 residents. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Fort Mill, as of mid-2021, had almost 28,000 residents.

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Yet new home approvals aren’t coming as rapidly.

In 2020, Fort Mill Town Council didn’t approve any new residential developments. The same is true for last year, when council reviewed but denied an annexation request for 80 new homes.

The town did approve annexation, rezoning and a development agreement in 2021 for the Crossroads project. That proposal will add up to 460 age-restricted residences and new commercial development in the Fort Mill Parkway and Williams Road area. Close to half of those residences, at 220 units, are part of an independent or assisted living facility with memory care.

Council initially denied a plan for Crossroads before agreeing to modifications. Council denied two more residential plans in 2021 that could’ve added 318 homes.

Town leaders have spoken for some time about the pressure new homes put on area roads, schools and other public infrastructure. Mayor Guynn Savage told area elected and road officials last month she still recalls the message from her first meeting with the Rock Hill-Fort Mill Area Transportation Study policy committee.

“I was told, Fort Mill’s got to stop growing,” Savage said. “You just have to stop permitting houses. Quit growing.”

Recently, Savage said, there’s been a shift.

“We’ve turned down quite a few,” Savage said. “It doesn’t make the paper, the ones we turn down. It certainly does the ones we accept. In the last two years, we’ve turned down more than we’ve accepted.”

Related to roads, Savage told the group, the hope is that fewer approved new homes will ease pressure points.

“We heard you,” Savage said, “and we understood that we were contributing to the problem that we all have.”

It may be a long while still before the recent shift away from new housing approvals becomes apparent. The town has about 7,000 new residences already entitled, or allowed for construction by past decisions or existing zoning. Town leaders say the final residence count could be significantly smaller due to land use or property constraints, like wetlands. Many of the entitled homes come from agreements set to span decades, so the impact won’t hit all at once.

The big driver in new homes is the Lennar project along Fort Mill Parkway, Elizabeth. Land formerly owned by U.S. Rep. John Spratt came up for development almost a decade ago. The initial request involved 3,400 residences. The town worked that number down to a 2016 approval for about 2,600 residences. The plan further evolved to fewer than 2,000 homes.

Unincorporated York County saw a peak for new home plans in 2020. There were nine projects with 895 lots whose plats came to the county planning commission. That lot count was almost four times what it was in 2019, at 239 lots.

There were more projects — 15 — in 2021 but there were about half as many lots requested. There were 449 residences approved in 2021, a number that dropped by almost half again last year to 241 residences.

County planners didn’t provide an exact number of how many approved homes can still be built in unincorporated parts of the county, but the figure is significant. Just among projects that came to the planning commission from 2019 to 2022, there were 1,824 lots approved. As of the new year, the county only listed one of those projects — a 50-lot subdivision — as under construction.

The past three years brought a steady increase for Rock Hill residences. There were 899 units approved in 2020. The amount increased to 1,270 units in 2021 and 1,627 units last year.

City planner Alex Boyce said the city doesn’t track the number of homes and apartments approved but not yet built. Sometimes projects are approved but never built. Some approvals expire in two years, leaving some units unbuilt. Then, there are projects approved many years back that still have work ongoing.

For units approved from 2020 to 2022, however, there were 375 units with certificates of occupancy as of year’s end. Which leaves 3,421 units approved in that span without one -- or yet to be fully built.

Lancaster County keeps tabs on its panhandle (the Indian Land area), its main residential growth area for more than a decade.

The county has a list of approved, active and recently completed subdivisions there. At year’s end, there were 17,759 homes and apartments on that list.

More than two-thirds of those residences, nearly 12,500 of them, are homes. About 5,200 are apartments.

Last year saw 411 new home approvals in the panhandle, less than half what the prior year brought. Apartment unit approvals dropped 38% in a year.

The past five years brought a shift in housing type. In 2018 and 2019, only a sliver of the more than 3,000 approved residences were apartments. From 2020 forward, there have been more apartment units than homes approved. Last year there were more than twice as many apartments as homes.

There’s likely plenty more of both to come.

Only 56% of homes and 48% of apartments on the approved list in the panhandle have been built. At year’s end there were 8,211 approved residences that hadn’t yet started construction. Of them, there are almost 5,500 homes and more than 2,700 apartments.

Tega Cay residential approvals bounced back in 2022.

“There were no new developments in 2020 and 2021,” said Susan Britt, city planning and development services director. “Permits issued in those years were for the continued development of existing subdivisions.”

The city approved 432 residences last year. There were 160 homes and 225 apartments at the former Game On site now informally known as the city “Main Street” project, and 138 homes at Windell Woods. Windell Woods should be complete by 2025, the former Game On site by 2027.

Like other area communities, recent approvals are just part of what comes next. As of the start of 2023, Tega Cay had 859 homes and apartments approved but not yet built. Apart from the former Game On site, all those homes and apartments come in projects slated for completion by 2025.

Expected new homes aren’t confined to the state line area.

As of October, the town of York had 14 active or recently approved projects under development. Another was pending. The western York County city had 2,412 homes and townhomes included.

Lancaster is another non-traditional hot spot for residential growth. The Roselyn development south of Andrew Jackson State Park on U.S. 521 was approved for more than 1,800 homes in 2019. Several others south of the panhandle followed.

Last fall, Lancaster County development services director Rox Burhans said the county has five years worth of residential growth approved but not yet built. There are more than 8,000 homes and townhomes that can be built without further approval. More projects have come in since.

In late January, Lancaster City Council moved forward with plans for almost 500 new residences. Combined with the Red Rose Village project from December, the city looks at more than 700 new residences in total.

FORT MILL, S.C. — Talk about out of this world: a group of sixth graders in Fort Mill won a national NASA contest.

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Students at Forest Creek Middle School were among 60 other winning teams of students from across the country to win the NASA TechRise Student Challenge.

This is a STEM competition for grades 6-12.

This year’s challenge was to design a science or technology experiment that will be tested on a NASA-sponsored high-altitude balloon.

The design had to be something that can help with space exploration and the study of Earth.

The students at Forest Creek designed a phone case that could protect a phone in different atmospheres.

Joanna Barney, a science teacher at Forest Creek Middle School, is leading the students through this challenge.

“They’re gonna create phone cases made of different materials and see which one is best if you were to take it to another atmosphere so that would help our pilots, that could help astronauts,” Barney said.

“Maybe in the future, like, we could use phones in like, in space, like in the future maybe if we could get to Mars,” said student Aahil Raza.

Students are excited.

“What I’m most excited about is building it and then coding it,” said student Katelyn Stokes.

The students meet once a week with a NASA engineer to discuss their design.

Once completed, the phone case will be placed in a box that will be attached to the balloon.

The balloon will ascend 70,000 feet and float for four hours.

Students will also be responsible for building the sensors that will be put on the box so they can measure data as the balloon is floating.

“So we’ll get data from the machines that we're building and we’ll be able to monitor the data when it goes up,” Barney explained.

NASA awarded the students $1,500 to buy the materials needed to make this idea come to life.

There are also two schools in North Carolina that won this challenge, including Cross Creek Early College High School in Fayetteville and Nesbitt Discovery Academy in Asheville.