Our History
Significant Historic Events
March 6, 1998: Southwest Preparatory School ranked 2"' out of 165 charter applications to become a 2"' Generation charter school and one of six charter schools in San Antonio with a five year charter from the State Board of Education
April 12, 1998: Southwest Winners Foundation, Inc. is created as the sponsoring non-profit for Southwest Preparatory School
August 12, 1998: Opened the first day of school with 23 students in the Alamo Hill Shopping Center at 1248 Austin Hwy
1998-1999: Students voted to have "Knights" as mascot narrowly defeating runner up "Blue Devils" by two votes
1999-2000: Received Discretionary Grant from TEA to start a co-op for special education.
2001: Expanded to 735 S.W.W. White Rd. (Southeast Campus) and operated in the sanctuary of Hope Presbyterian Church
2001: Passed a 2.25 million municipal bond to purchase land on Austin Hwy, build the Northeast Campus and purchased Hope Presbyterian Church and site improvements at the Southeast Campus
2001 Selected by TEA to operate a pilot "virtual school."
2002 Awarded 1.3 million dollars to upgrade the Southeast Campus and brought in the new education building and cafeteria building
2002 Expanded to Northwest San Antonio and took over the School of Excellence facilities and staff on Bandera Rd
2003 Moved the Northwest Campus to the old Koger Center (Centerview Crossing Office Complex) off of Callaghan Rd
2003 Moved into Northeast Campus at 1258 Austin Hwy
2003 Started an alternative school for District called New Directions
2003 Charter is extended for 10 years to 2013
2004 Opened a night school at Northeast Campus
2005 Purchased vacant lot next to Southeast Campus
2006 Passed an 8 million dollar bond to build New Directions (Northeast Middle School), Northwest Campus in Alamo Downs, and to refinance 2001 bonds at a lower interest rate
2006-2007 New Directions Alternative Campus moved into the new building on the Northeast Campus
2007-2008 Northwest Campus moves from Callaghan campus location to Alamo Downs
2009 Opened night school at Northwest Campus
2009-2010 Started local School Health Co-op
2010 Purchased campus vans
2010- 2011 Awarded a 3-year TTIPS Transformation grant totaling approximately 9 million dollars; (The purpose of the grant was to change our district from a credit recovery/drop-out prevention school to a college preparatory model.)
2011-2012 Northeast Campus is SACS Accredited
2012-2013 Opened Middle Schools at each campus and converted New Directions alternative school to Northeast Middle School
2012-2013 Southeast & Northwest Campuses are SACS Accredited
2012-2013 Northwest Campus added students from Shekinah Radiance schools
2012-2013 Hired architects to begin planning Northwest multi-purpose building
2012-2013 Applied for ten-year charter renewal
2013 Purchased a bus to transport Northwest students to the Northeast campus
2013-2014 Expanded elementary grades at Northeast and Southeast Campuses
2013-2014 Added Northwest Elementary School on Culebra Rd
2013-2014 Approved to expand to contiguous counties
2013-2014 Added elementary grades to Northeast Campus by remodeling New-Directions building
2014-2015 Added an elementary building to the Southeast Campus
2015-2016 Remodeled Grace Family Bible Church
2016-2017 Opened the Seguin Campus PreK-5; Purchased a property from Grace Family Bible Church; Refinanced Debt and borrow funds for Phase Two of Seguin and Northwest Campus Gym; Completed Phase Two Seguin.
2017-2018 Added grade 6 to Seguin Campus; Remodeled Northwest Campus to add classrooms and grades 5 and 6; Began construction of the Northwest Campus gym
2018-2019 Added grade 7 to Seguin Campus; Celebrated Twenty Year Anniversary; Completed the Northwest Campus gym; Northwest Campus partnered with Texas A&M University-San Antonio to become an official Early College High School
2019-2020 Added grade 8 to Seguin Campus
2020-2021 Added grade 9 to the Seguin Campus
2021-2022 Added grad 10 to the Seguin Campus