UPDATE: Summit Christian Academy sells Leander campus to charter school

The 14-acre school campus can serve around 300 students, all of whom will have an equal chance to attend Founders Classical Academy, said Thomas Terry, director of corporate marketing and communications for ResponsiveEd. The public charter school is funded by the state and is overseen by the Texas Education Agency.

"We go through an open enrollment period of 2 weeks to a month. If we get more interest than there is room at the school, then it goes into a lottery and names are drawn randomly."

Though the transaction amount was undisclosed, Rothans said proceeds from the property sale will be put back into the Cypress Creek campus in Cedar Park.

"We haven't had school at that location for probably five years, when we combined and condensed our education into the one campus," Rothans said. "Part of the proceeds from the sale of that campus we are remodeling and renovating. We are changing our curriculum focus to a STEM school."

The concentration on science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, led SCA to adopt iPad-based teaching and learning methods at the high school level. Proceeds from the Leander campus sale also allowed the private school to add courses and equipment.

"With that shift in focus, we've added a second track for science, a separate science teacher and a separate lab. We will be teaching forensics and an extra biology [class]," he said. "We've also purchased and added two large instructional size telescopes and we'll be teaching astronomy along with possibly having a monthly community star parties."