Mission Hill K-8 School

Note: New Location for 2012/2013 -- 20 Child Street, Jamaica Plain

School Highlights:

• A pilot school emphasizing active, project-based, collaborative learning
• Multi-aged classes of not more than 20 students, with a meeting area, small library, and computers in each classroom
• Arts emphasized through much of the school day
• Focus on three schoolwide themes each year
•  Graduation based on performance
• Focus on habits of mind and work
• Use of multiple assessments—not just standardized testing—to measure student achievement
• Named an Exemplary Exhibition School by the Coalition of Essential Schools (2006)
• Home and school partnership sustained through family participation in ongoing exhibitions of student work
• Sharing and learning from innovative educators locally, nationally and internationally
• School partners: Boston College, City Connects, Farm School (Athol, MA), Kids Can Cook, Mass. College of Art and Design, Northeastern University, Sociedad Latina, UpStart, Urban Voices, and Wheelock College.