UP Academy Leonard (LWPS)

Founded in 2010, UP Education Network is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit school management organization. It is one of the few in the country that is successfully tackling the challenges of in-district school turnaround. UP operates three schools in Boston and two in Lawrence, serving 2,600 of the state’s historically under-served students. In fall 2016, it will launch an UP Academy in Springfield, its first restart school in Western Massachusetts. UP’s mission is to rapidly transform chronically under performing district schools into extraordinary schools that sustain high achievement over time.