Carmen Schools of Science & Technology break ground on new campus [Video]

Carmen Schools of Science & Technology kicked off construction for a new $55 million high school Thursday, marking the first time the charter school network will have its building independent of Milwaukee Public Schools. The new school is going up at the corner of 20th Street and Oklahoma Avenue, on Milwaukee’s south side. A former Medical Arts Pavilion currently sits on the property but will be razed, making room for the new school. “Finding a place that’s close by, that has enough acreage to accommodate all we want to make happen for our kids, took about ten years,” said Aaron Lippman, CEO of Carmen Schools. Expected to open in time for the 2026-27 school year, the new campus will unite students and staff from the existing Carmen South and Carmen Southeast high schools, which operate out of Milwaukee Public Schools’ ALBA School and Pulaski High School. Those buildings are about …