Outstanding achievement at the Open Academy: Students from the Rockdale Open Academy were honored recently at a Board of Education meeting for their achievements in earning credits toward graduation. Left to right: Principal Mike Mauriello, Angela Brown, Chris Reddick, Jordaine Hutton, Cesar Murillo, Assistant Principal Frank Daniels.

The Open Campus is non-traditional secondary program that provides a flexible educational opportunity to students who may be unlikely, for a variety of reasons, to reach their full potential in the traditional high school structure. It opened in Aug. 2008.