If you give students a school where people care about what they say, where adults challenge them to make their words clear, true, and strong, and where their work makes a visible difference in the lives of others, then you’ve built a community in which everyone pushes herself or himself toward ever higher goals. Education becomes real—and the world you want to build starts to happen, before you have even left 5th grade.
At the Uphams Corner Charter School, one of Boston's newest public schools, you'll find a small, intense community dedicated to these radical ideas. Here, we believe that every child is a natural philosopher, wondering about her world and searching for ways to make her ideas clear. And we believe a rigorous, liberal arts education is the surest way to make her voice strong. We teach the classics - Latin, Shakespeare and Frederick Douglass - because we know they are the best way to make radical change in the 21st century. As students open their minds to the joy of learning, thought, and expression, they gain the power to make their voices heard in the world, and they grow in compassion to use those voices for the good of others.
Our mission
The Uphams Corner Charter School, a middle and high school, offers an academically rigorous, rhetoric-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences, leading to sound understanding, earnest reflection, self-discipline, integrity and action. Our community is devoted to outstanding student performance and whole character development. We will graduate all our students as powerful, articulate, moral citizens, working for the benefit of all.
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7 Elkins St.
South Boston, MA 02127
Founded: 2002
Enrollment: 200
Grades: 5-8
Gender: Co-ed