Oprah Winfrey will be closing her academy’s boarding school in South Africa.

The tuition-free Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls opened in 2007 following discussions with Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa. Its website describes it as a “forward-thinking, cutting-edge” all-girls school. Its focus areas are arts, humanities, languages, math and science.

In science, students learn how to solve problems tied to chemistry, physics, and biology as well as develop skills in observation, recording data, analyzing information and drawing informed conclusions, according to its website.

Students have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, artists, executives, and entrepreneurs, per Oprah Daily. One of those graduates is Andronica, who completed her studies at the school in 2012 and is now a senior engineering lead at Meta.

“Every corner of the campus was filled with so much love and care and detail,” Andronica told Oprah Daily. “OWLAG convinced me that preparation, character, and purpose mattered more than where I came from.”

The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls has graduated more than 1,000 girls, LiveNOW on Fox reports. After making an impact for nearly two decades, it will close its boarding school after the 2027 academic year, and students “will go to other top-tier schools with their tuition paid for in total by Ms. Winfrey through their graduation,” a representative said, according to People.

South Africa’s Gauteng Department of Education will take over operations, per Oprah Daily.

Winfrey’s mission for South African youth “doesn’t end with one campus. It continues in every girl whose future can be transformed through education,” she said, according to People.

This will be carried on through a scholarship program that will reach “double the amount of girls,” according to a representative for Winfrey.

“That is the core of the decision to shift to this new model after seeing the success of the students the past 20 years,” the rep told People.

Winfrey said in a statement:

“The dream was never simply to build a school. It was to invest in the limitless potential of young women. …I’m excited that this next chapter will allow us to reach even more young women across South Africa and continue the promise that began more than 20 years ago.”