PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Md. — Despite working to address financial shortfalls, the operator of one of Prince George's County's longest-running Charter Schools announced Friday that the school would close.

The EXCEL Academy Public Charter will be closing ahead of the 2025-2026 school year.

“We are as devastated as our wonderful community of educators and families are about this sudden closure,” said Lisa Butler McDougal of SEED/EXCEL Charter School, LLC, the school’s nonprofit operator. “We are aggressively working with Prince George’s County Public Schools to ensure our families are placed in charter schools with vacancies across the school district and that our teachers and staff are able to fill vacancies in other schools.”

According to a press release from the charter school's operat

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