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At LEAD Public Schools, we work to identify barriers to student success and provide real-time interventions to help alleviate them. A variety of factors can make it difficult for a child to attend school daily, including a lack of access

LEAD Southeast High School boasts two Life Skills teachers, Madison Cartularo and Maggie Moran, who serve students with exceptional learning needs by teaching essential and practical life skills. As part of their work-based learning class, they recently set up a salad

All six schools at LEAD Public Schools accept students from all over Davidson County in grades 5 through 12. Even if a family is zoned for a different school in Nashville, they can choose to send their child to LEAD,

LEAD Neely’s Bend Middle School joined the LEAD Public Schools network in 2015, but has been a part of the Madison community just north of the Nashville city center for over 60 years. Neely’s Bend continues to value the traditions

LEAD Public Schools has selected Jonathan Brocco as LEAD Southeast Middle’s new principal for the 2024-25 school year. He currently serves as LEAD Southeast Middle’s assistant principal of instruction. “Mr. Brocco’s knowledge as a leader at LEAD Southeast Middle, as well

At schools across the country, one of the biggest obstacles to student learning is chronic absenteeism. While student attendance has always been a challenge in schools that serve predominantly economically disadvantaged students, the pandemic worsened attendance numbers with chronic absenteeism

At LEAD Public Schools, it is our goal to develop our students into people who will not only be successful in college, but also in life. Academics are just one piece of a students’ development into a successful adult, and

LEAD Public Schools opened LEAD Southeast Middle School (LSEM) in 2013, responding to the need for personalized and high-quality instruction in South Nashville and Antioch neighborhoods. The school has a diverse student population, welcoming students from 28 countries, and a

January is National Mentoring Month, and the mentorship programs at LEAD Public Schools are worth celebrating. We spoke with a few educators at LEAD Southeast Middle and LEAD Cameron who have seen the benefits of mentoring first-hand in their schools. At

At LEAD Public Schools, one of the tenets of our Ethos is “Serving Others.” The holiday season provides an opportunity for LEAD staff to come together to provide some additional love and support for our students and their families. The