The city’s longest operating public charter school, Midtown Academy serves 198 students in Kindergarten through eighth grade. For years, Midtown Academy has struggled with the space constraints of the small school facility that it rents from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. More than one hundred students applied for the 22 Kindergarten spaces for the 2018-2019 school year. The waitlist for each grade outweighs the number of open slots by at least 500 percent. This grant provided funds for a real estate consultant to assist with pre-development activities related to identifying, obtaining, renovating, and moving to a new facility for the 2020-2021 school year.