ESSEX STREET ACADEMY MISSION STATEMENT

At Essex Street Academy, we prepare all of our students for success in college and in life by treating them as individuals with specific strengths and needs, and appealing to their intellectual curiosity in our courses. We also provide a safe learning environment where students’ needs are our number one priority. We offer core and elective courses that challenge students to develop their own ideas. With an emphasis on project-based learning, students spend their four years developing a portfolio that best reflects their intellectual growth. Students learn the skill of making an argument supported by evidence by doing: designing and conducting experiments, developing a historical thesis, analyzing works of literature through a critical lens, developing mathematical solutions and proofs to problems encountered. We believe in developing students’ ability to apply sophisticated skills to solve complex problems. Our students are active, not passive, and will graduate from our school confident in their ability to tackle any problem they encounter. We cap our class size at 20, enabling teachers to develop an individual relationship with each student. Small class sizes make a personalized approach to education possible.

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