Working collaboratively with bright people every day is a privilege. We push each other to be both innovative and student-centered in every strategy decision. And we're a fun bunch!

Kara Christianson

Associate Director of Recruitment

Uncommon Schools

We believe that families deserve as many great educational options as possible. We love working with teachers, students, and families to create a vibrant and joyful school.

Mabel Lajes-Guiteras

Principal

Bedford Stuyvesant Collegiate

We believe this work is the most important and rewarding work that we can do. Our vision is Uncommon Schools will help redefine what families and students can expect from an urban public school.

Laura Lee McGovern

Chief Operating Officer

Uncommon New York City (5-12)

I am most appreciative of the discipline, tough love, coaching, encouraging words, high standards for academics, and also the reward for a job well done.

Uncommon Parent

For the first time in my teaching career, I feel like anything is possible. I am part of an inspiring professional team with one common goal: student success.

Suzanne Wasik

Dean of Students

Excellence Boys

Boston

Roxbury Prep was established in 1999 and has since become one of the top public middle schools in Massachusetts, consistently outperforming over 80% of middle schools across the state, and ensuring that 99% of its students to date have gone on to graduate from high school. In 2010, Roxbury Prep officially became a part of Uncommon Schools. In 2011, Uncommon Boston expanded to its second school - Grove Hall Prep. The shared mission of Roxbury Prep and Grove Hall Prep is to prepare students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college, and we are proud to report that currently nearly two-thirds of Roxbury Prep's alumni are enrolled in or have completed college. Over the next five years, Uncommon Boston will grow to four schools serving 1,800 students.

Boston

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