The sudden closure of a Monroe charter school has left 160 students without a school and families trying to figure out the next steps.

The Apprentice Academy announced its sudden closure on Saturday. The school principal and chairman of the board cited a variety of reasons for the closure. Among those reasons, a Thursday visit from the fire marshal's office where the school learned their certificate of occupancy (CO) was expired.

"School administration had believed in good faith that the CO was valid as the school had previously occupied the same building and had a valid CO at that time with no expiration date on the documentation," school administration explained on it website. "The Fire Marshall informed Administration that the previous CO had actually expired when Apprentice Academy vacated the building in 2019."

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