At Essex Street Academy, we prepare all of our students for success in college by treating them as individuals with specific strengths and needs, and by appealing to their intellectual curiosity in our courses. We offer elective courses that challenge stuents to develop their own ideas and have students learn by doing: designing and conducting experiments, developing a historical thesis based on primary sources, analyzing works of literature through a critical lens, developing mathematical solutions and proofs to problems encountered. The ability to apply sophisticated skills to solve a complex problem will serve students more effectively in college and beyond than the memorization of other people's ideas. Our students are active, not passive, learners and will graduate from our school confident in their ability to tackle any problem they encounter.
