McCartney Academy
E5 Enclave Inc. · Liberty City, Miami Take the surveySurvey

Phase 0 · The parent interest survey

We’re listening first.

E5 Enclave Inc. is developing a plan for a new, tuition-free public school in Liberty City — possibly opening August 2028 if approved. This survey asks Liberty City parents what you want in a school. It is not an application. It is not an enrollment form. Your answers help show a future school partner that families here want this option.

Answering takes about 5 minutes — 13 plain-language questions. We will only contact you about this school project if you say we can.

The survey

Tell us what your family needs.

Thirteen questions about what matters in a school — safety, teaching, after-school care, transportation — and the grade levels your children will be in for the 2028–29 school year. What parents tell us shapes the grade plan and the priorities the application proposes. Families are the authors of this school, not its audience.

These are expressions of interest, not applications or enrollments. Answering the survey commits you to nothing.

Our consent promise

“I agree that E5 Enclave Inc. may contact me about the McCartney Academy school proposal. I can opt out anytime — reply STOP to any text, or write [email protected] — and E5 will delete my information on request.”

A short survey — about five minutes — asking Liberty City parents what you want in a school. It is not an application. It is not an enrollment form. We only contact you about this school project if you say we can.

1 Can we reach you?

Do you live in or near Liberty City, Miami?

“I agree that E5 Enclave Inc. may contact me about the McCartney Academy school proposal. I can opt out anytime — reply STOP to any text, or write [email protected] — and E5 will delete my information on request.”

Leave this unchecked if you only want your answers counted, with no follow-up contact.

If you checked the box above, give us at least one way to reach you — phone or email.

Preferred language

How should we reach you?

2 Your children’s grades for 2028–29

Check every grade your children will be in during the school’s planned first year (2028–29).

3 Where do your children go to school now?

Check all that apply.

4 How interested are you?

E5 Enclave Inc. is working to bring a new tuition-free public school to Liberty City. How interested would you be in this option for your child?

5 What matters most to you?

Pick your top 3.

6 What would make you feel your child is safe at school?
7 Would you need after-school care?
8 How would your child get to and from school?
9 What one thing would make you choose this new school?
10 What worries you most about a brand-new school?

Check all that apply.

11 If McCartney Academy moves forward, would you…
12 How did you hear about this survey?
13 Anything else?

Where this stands

The honest timeline.

The school does not exist yet — no building, no operator, no programs. What exists is the work: a charter application to the school district, with a target opening after that.

  1. Now — Phase 0

    We are listening first.

    This parent survey and the interest list across Liberty City. Parent voices shape the proposal before it is written.

  2. 2027

    Charter application.

    The application goes to the school district — planned for 2027. Nothing is guaranteed — the district must approve it.

  3. August 2028

    The aim.

    The opening we are working toward — if the application is approved and the pieces are in place.

The district’s application deadline is being verified against current policy before we state a date.

What we will not claim.

  • No site. No location has been selected; site selection happens during the application process.
  • No operator. The charter-management partner will be chosen after demand is proven — not before.
  • No programs. Nothing is designed yet; programs get built with the future operator, shaped by what families tell us.
  • No promises. August 2028 is an aim, not a guarantee. The district decides.

The record

Why the name McCartney.

McCartney Academy is named for a man whose service is on the public record — honored on the floor of Congress, proclaimed by a city, and preserved in his own words. We state here only what the record establishes.

Congressional Record

“Tribute to Ralph McCartney”

Hon. Carrie P. Meek · U.S. House of Representatives
February 1, 1994 · Vol. 140, pp. 602–603

“That I was a McCartney.”

The tribute records his birth on March 11, 1934, the last of eight children of Leon and Lillian McCartney, in the Overtown community — and three of the works he carried out there: the pedestrian overpass at Edison Park Elementary across I-95, the Department of Defense Race Relations Institute, and the rebuilding of Booker T. Washington.

  • 1994Honored on the floor of the U.S. House by Rep. Carrie P. Meek of Florida.
  • RolesUrban League of Greater Miami; Dade County Community Relations Board; Economic Opportunity Program, Inc.; director of the Neighbor Center; Rev. Leon Sullivan’s OIC of Dade County.

Oral history

“Tell the Story”

UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
Recorded August 14, 1997 · Interviewer: Devon Williams

Ralph McCartney sat for a full oral-history interview — his life, in his own words, recorded for the archive. The transcript runs fifty-eight pages.

City proclamation

“A Community of Brotherhood and Sisterhood”

City of Opa-locka · May 25, 1994
Mayor Robert B. Ingram

Three months after the congressional tribute, the City of Opa-locka proclaimed its own honor — a community of brotherhood and sisterhood, in his name.

The family home

820 NW 64th Street

Miami, FL 33150 · Folio 0131140360790
Built 1938 · 1,198 sq. ft. · Seventh Ave Park

The family home stands in Liberty City — a 1938 residence, and the root the school’s name grows from.

Our standard: every fact above traces to a document. Where the record is silent — the date of his passing, the full ownership history of the house — we say so, plainly. A school named for a man should never invent his story.

This page is the survey. For the full vision — the story behind the name, the developing proposal, and the honest accounting of where it stands — visit the McCartney Academy page.

Read the full vision →

Honest answers

Questions parents ask.

If we don’t know the answer yet, we say so — and we won’t guess.

Honest answer: right now it’s a serious effort to develop a real charter application — but the school doesn’t exist yet, and it won’t exist unless the district approves it. This survey is the first real step, and parent demand is what makes the application credible.

Only E5 Enclave Inc. holds it. We use it to (1) show the district that families want this school and (2) send you updates about the proposal — only if you opt in. We never sell or share your information. You can opt out anytime and we delete it.

Not finalized. Tell us what grade levels your children will be in for the 2028–29 school year in question 2 of the survey — parent demand shapes the grade plan we propose.

We’re aiming for August 2028. The charter application is due in 2027 (exact deadline being verified), and the school district has to approve it — so nothing is guaranteed yet. That’s exactly why we’re collecting parent demand now: the application has to show real family interest.

Those are exactly the kinds of things the survey asks about. Transportation and after-school plans get designed with our future operator — and we need your answers to know what to build. No routes or programs are promised until they are.

Yes. As a public charter school it will be tuition-free, funded like every other public school in Miami-Dade County.