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A Henderson Collegiate twist on Dickens: ‘Read, baby read’
Article courtesy by DAVID IRVINE of The Daily Dispatch Ebenezer Scrooge hated books. With a “bah, humbug!” he expressed his displeasure. This twist on the Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” was staged by students from Henderson Collegiate Charter School at their annual Parent Pride night. The 200 students and their parents filled the Civic Center at [...]
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N.C. School Choice Group Partners With Venture Fund To Back New Charters
Partners for Developing Futures targets minority-led public charters Article courtesy of Dan Way, contributor of Carolina Journal Online HENDERSON — Statistical charts, goal-tracking graphs, and high-achiever lists line the kaleidoscopic walls at Henderson Collegiate Charter School. It was the assigned task of Taimya Scott and Carlos Cruz to interpret all that data for a visitor on [...]
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NFL star urges students to read and learn
Article and Photo courtesy of Daily Dispatch Vance County native and NFL center Jason Brown spent Thursday sharing a little wisdom with students at Henderson Collegiate Charter School and the Vance County unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central North Carolina. According to Brown, the key to success in life is determination [...]
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Charter school ready to add grade; Henderson Collegiate enrolling students for new year
Article and Photo courtesy of Daily Dispatch Teacher Carice Sanchez looks over her excited fourth graders before picking one to answer a question during reading class at Henderson Collegiate Tuesday afternoon. The charter school is currently taking enrollment applications. (Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE) Enrollment is in full swing at Henderson’s newest charter school, with [...]
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Introduction Video
Henderson Collegiate Introduction Video from Eric Sanchez on Vimeo.
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Henderson Collegiate Charter School shows off, with pride
Article and Photo courtesy of Daily Dispatch Members of the Pride of 2019 react to elements of “Frindle” by Andrew Clements while the group has a book discussion during Henderson Collegiate’s first Parents Pride Night at Vance-Granville Community College’s Civic Center Thursday night. (Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE) Henderson Collegiate Charter School students put on a [...]
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Pride of 2019
The Pride of 2019 has begun the first school year of Henderson Collegiate. What exactly is the Pride of 2019 you may ask?. Any of the 102 fourth-grade students at Henderson Collegiate would answer, we are the Pride. The Pride is a group of lions, and at Henderson Collegiate, it is their motto that the [...]
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Funds needed for pride of 2019 Henderson Collegiate Charter School wants to give its students the extras
Article and Photos courtesy of MEGAN REAVIS of Daily Dispatch Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE School Founder and Principal Eric Sanchez directs after-school traffic for student pickup outside Henderson Collegiate Charter School Thursday afternoon. The school is in the middle of its two-weeks of summer session. Fourth graders today, “the pride of 2019” always. At [...]
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School embraces diversity
There have been several articles and editorials in the Dispatch during this past week regarding the debate around school choice and the number of options that students and parents have here in Vance County. One of the more controversial aspects of this discussion is the issue of diversity, in particular a perception among many that some charter schools [...]
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Henderson Collegiate breaks ground – HiH
By: Jason Feingold – www.homeinhenderson.com Henderson Collegiate Director Eric Sanchez, fourth-grade teacher and Dean of Instruction Carice Sanchez, Chair of the Henderson Collegiate Board of Directors Nancy Jo Smith, and assorted dignitaries were gathered yesterday morning near the site of the Vance Manor House to break ground for the recently-chartered Henderson Collegiate Academy. The school’s [...]


