[5] In spring of 2015, Rowe also instituted a mentorship program, Seeds of Promise, which brought young adult men from the community into the school to attempt to connect with disengaged students.

[7] In 2018, incoming principal Tammatha Woodhouse announced her intention to dramatically increase enrollment to 400 (from 242 in August 2018), and to add organized sports to the school's programming.

[10] A month later, the revised plan was released, which announced that Renaissance would instead move to open space in the campus of West Baltimore Middle School.

[14] When the board returned to the matter in January 2017, the Office of New School Initiatives released a report proposing Renaissance be relocated to the campus of Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) in the Burleith-Leighton neighborhood.

Owing to both its high need and occasional national and local prominence, Renaissance Academy has been the recipient (in whole or part) of a large amount of outside funding to provide various supplementary services: