Mission Statement
The Esperanza Academy Charter High School is dedicated to providing quality education that prepares critically thinking, socially capable, spiritually sensitive, and culturally aware young adults who can use English, Spanish, and technology as tools for success.

Walk the halls of the Esperanza Academy and you will find confident young people who are smiling, enthusiastic, respectful of self and others, and enjoying their educational experience.

In watching our students since the first class in 2000, we are proud of the young people who have benefited from this comprehensive, college preparatory four-year high school. The Esperanza Academy has achieved student test scores that are among the highest in the entire Philadelphia region. More than 95 percent of our graduates are accepted into colleges—a clear indicator that we are indeed achieving our mission.

The learning experience is designed to enrich each student through access to 10 major career tracks, including entrepreneurship, technology, teacher education, and journalism. Esperanza Academy’s School of the Arts, opened in October 2007, offers an additional six majors in the arts, ranging from dance, drama, and voice to film, instrumental music, and the visual arts. All courses are taught in modern classrooms that offer a safe, structured, and disciplined environment. Student-to-teacher ratio is 20-to-1.

The school year begins the day after Labor Day and ends during the third week of June. The Esperanza Academy offers a four-week summer session that runs from the last week of June to the last week of July. Holidays are those of the Philadelphia School District.

We invite you to visit us at www.neacademy.org.