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Another Course to College
Another Course to College (ACC) is a college preparatory high school in the Boston Public Schools, serving students from diverse backgrounds and neighborhoods.  It is dedicated to providing rigorous academics for students in a supportive environment.  ACC fosters intellectual curiosity and prepares its students for analytical reading and writing at the college level.  ACC measure its success on its alumni’s success.

Baldwin Early Learning Center
As a laboratory school, ELC will serve as a professional development site for Boston Public Schools and community early childhood centers.  Our school is dedicated to the study, improvement and dissemination of challenging and developmentally appropriate early childhood practices. Our program highlights children’s varied learning strengths and special interests through ongoing observation, assessment and reflection in the creation of an early childhood curriculum.

Boston Arts Academy
The Boston Arts Academy, a pilot school within the Boston Public Schools, is charged with being a laboratory and a beacon for artistic and academic innovation.  The Boston Arts Academy prepares a diverse community of aspiring artist-scholars to be successful in their college or professional careers and to be engaged members of a democratic society.

Boston Community Leadership Academy
Boston Community Leadership Academy’s mission is to develop the capacity for leadership in all students empowering them to make a positive contribution to their communities.  BCLA’s rigorous curriculum prepares students to succeed in college, to lead fulfilled lives, and to participate in our diverse and complex democracy. 

Boston Day and Evening Academy
Boston Day and Evening Academy is an innovative public high school that educates urban students who are over-age for grade level and seek an educational alternative in order to overcome personal and academic challenges and to graduate as critical and creative thinkers, independent learners, and active citizens.

Fenway High School 
Fenway High School's mission is to create a socially committed and morally responsible community of learners which values its students as individuals.  Its goal is to encourage academic excellence and habits of mind, self-esteem and leadership development among all the school’s students.  

Greater Egleston Community High School
Greater Egleston Community High School is a small pilot school for young adults ages 16 to 21.  Our mission is to provide quality instruction to meet the educational needs of our diverse range of young adult learners while they concurrently learn effective communication skills.  Our young adult students also learn the importance of character building as an essential part of a process for developing successful life skills.  Greater Egleston places emphasis on ensuring graduates are well prepared to access either college or vocational training opportunities beyond high school as well as having the capacity to emerge as leading contributors within their community.

The Harbor School
The Harbor School’s mission is to inspire in our students an inextinguishable drive toward excellence, craftsmanship, service, and adventure.  We view learning as an expedition and work to instill uncompromising academic skills, habits of work and character, and a personal sense of direction and tenacity that will lead to success in high school, and to a life-long love for learning and service to others.

Health Careers Academy
Health Careers Academy (HCA) is a college preparatory high school for students exploring careers in the health professions. The Academy provides a supportive learning environment that promotes respect and embraces diversity.  Students will attain the life skills needed to become productive and positive members of society.

Josiah Quincy Upper School
The mission of JQUS is to develop its students to be knowledgeable, productive members of a global society through an education that promotes cultural awareness, skillful use of information, personal renewal, and both individual and community path-finding for the twenty-first century. 

The Lee Pilot Academy
Our mission is to ensure the healthy, full development of the whole child by building academic skills, social/emotional competencies, and effective habits of being.  We support the whole development of our children by bringing together a caring and engaged community of adults.   We support staff by being a staff-centered school– a school committed to fostering and tending to the collegiality, professional growth, intellectual exploration, leadership development and the emotional well-being of our staff.  Further, we strive to develop authentic relationships with families, engaging them as co-teachers in their child’s learning and development.

Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School (formerly New Boston Pilot Middle School)
The Mission of the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School is to provide students in grades six through eight with a rigorous academic curriculum within a stimulating and nurturing environment. 
   Our school serves the whole child - mind, body, and spirit - as well as families and the community in which our children reside. 
   The roots of the child - family, heritage, and community - are explored and affirmed as a source of knowledge, connection and pride.  We strive to help students develop a strong sense of belonging by providing nurturing adults who work within small academies—four learning communities within the school.
   Inquiry, exploration, experience, connections and hands-on learning all facilitate and complement the core academic curricula and support our vision of developing life long learners. 

Lyndon Elementary School
The school's over-arching goal is to foster a lifelong love of learning in students while helping them develop the specific skills needed for ongoing academic success and personal maturation. The Lyndon works to help students become successful, contributing community members and responsible future citizens.

Mission Hill School
The task of public education is to help parents raise youngsters who will maintain and nurture the best habits of a democratic society – be smart, caring, strong, resilient, imaginative and thoughtful. It aims at producing youngsters who can live productive, socially useful and personally satisfying lives, while also respecting the rights of all others. The school, as we see it, will help strengthen our commitment to diversity, equity and mutual respect.

Democracy requires citizens with the capacity to step into the shoes of others, even those we most dislike, to sift and weigh alternatives, to listen respectfully to other viewpoints with the possibility in mind that we each have something to learn from others. It requires us to be prepared to defend intelligently that which we believe to be true, and that which we believe best meets our individual needs and those of our family, community and broader public -- to not be easily conned. It requires also the skills and competencies to be well informed and persuasive--to read well, to write and speak effectively and persuasively, and to handle numbers and calculations with competence and confidence.

Democracy requires citizens who are themselves artists and inventors -- knowledgeable about the accomplishments, performances, products and inventions of others but also capable of producing, performing and inventing their own art. Without art we are all deprived.

Such habits of mind, and such competence are sustained by our enthusiasms, as well as our love for others and our respect for ourselves, and our willingness to persevere, deal with frustration and develop reliable habits of work. Our mission is to create a community in which our children and their families can best maintain and nurture such democratic habits.

Toward these ends, our community must be prepared to spend time even when it might seem wasteful hearing each other out. We must deal with each other in ways that lead us to feel stronger and more loved, not weaker and less loveable. We must expect the most from everyone, hold all to the highest standards, but also respect our different ways of exhibiting excellence. We must together build a reasonable set of standards for our graduates so that they can demonstrate to us their capacity to meet this mission.

New Mission High School
New Mission High School's mission is to empower students in the city of Boston to become self-directed, life-long learners. NMHS provides an intellectually rigorous high school education in a small, supportive, personalized learning community. Enabling students through multiculturalism, community, creativity, and inquiry are at the core of this school's culture.

Orchard Gardens Pilot School
The Orchard Gardens Pilot School is a neighborhood-centered school that provides quality education for the Orchard Gardens community and communities across Boston in an environment that is clean, safe, and welcoming to children, families, and community members as equal partners. 

Samuel W. Mason Elementary School
The mission of the Mason School is to provide a comprehensive and rigorous full inclusion academic program supported by committed teachers, staff, teacher interns, devoted parents, and a strong community working collaboratively and learning together.

TechBoston Academy
Every student can learn and develop into a responsible citizen by providing an environment that is both nurturing and challenging.  TechBoston Academy offers a college preparatory curriculum which includes interdisciplinary project-based learning, where technology is the bridge that connects the student to his/her learning experience.

Young Achievers Science and Mathematics Pilot School
The Young Achievers Science and Mathematics Pilot School is dedicated to creating an exceptional teaching and learning environment in which science and math concepts, explored by new technologies are central to teacher and student inquiry. Our school is governed by a democratic process that relies on active partnerships with families, students, community members and community institutions. We make a collective commitment to social justice through academic excellence for the diverse student body enrolled at our school from throughout the city of Boston. Our rigorous academic and social curriculum is designed to maximize each student's potential for critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, community involvement, and responsible leadership.