TEMPLE TERRACE — Focus Day School opened its doors this fall to students from third through sixth grade, an expansion of the already existing Focus Academy, which has served students with intellectual disabilities from sixth grade to age 22 since 2012.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Feb. 22 at its new location at St. Catherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church at 502 Druid Hills Road. The new school, which was hosted by Focus Academy during the first half of the school year, moved to its permanent home at the beginning of January.
The partnership between the church and the school is a mutually beneficial arrangement, one that the church’s rector, the Rev. Dr. James H. Reho, said is aligned with scripture and the church’s mission…