JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Students evicted from their school in the middle of the school day on Friday had no idea where they would be going to class come Monday morning.

Now a local school is stepping up and offering a helping hand to the students without a school.

 
Kenneth Brockington was watching on television the Friday reports of the closure of Patterson Academy for the Arts. Students leaving that day had questions but no answers. Their parents were also left in the dark.
 
Patterson Academy just opened in 2009 but was under enrolled. As a result, the school couldn't pay its bills and its 73 students were left with no place to go on Monday. Brockington and the staff at Cornerstone Christian School heard their story and wanted to do something about it.
 
"The priority is to make sure these kids have a place to land in the morning and [Cornerstone] is a place they can land and when they come up here they will see me standing there greeting them," said Brockington.
 
Cornerstone currently has almost 300 students but according to staff, they will make room for all of Patterson's students free of charge. Brockington said he hadn't spoken to anyone at Patterson Academy but he has hope the gesture will give Patterson's staff time to work out their finances. All their students have to do is show up in the morning to Cornerstone's school located in the 4000 block of Spring Park Road.
 
Brockington has worked in education for forty-two years, but says the decision to open the doors of his school to another was a no-brainer.
 
"You step up to the plate you do what you have to do," he said. "Hopefully [Patterson's students) will realize when they get here, this will be a pretty good place to be."