Schools for Children in the Community

We encourage our faculty, staff and students to participate in our communities; to make positive contributions to the communities we teach, live and learn in. Our school communities make these contributions in many creative and helpful ways, such as:

• Supporting the homeless
• Recycling food and clothing
• Improving public spaces

Supporting the homeless

• Lesley Ellis students participated in planning birthday parties for 10 homeless children to each enjoy the kind of birthday party most kids take for granted. Students made birthday cards and sold them to raise almost $2000 for "Birthday Wishes", a non-profit that provides birthday parties for children living in homeless shelters. Read more about this project

• Seaport Academy students collect unsold bread from bakeries and distribute it to homeless shelters in Boston.

• Seaport Academy is a collection point in the Navy Yard for "Toys for Tots".

Recycling food and clothing

• Seaport Academy lunch leftovers are taken once a week to a nearby hog farms to feed the animals.

• Dearborn staff and students participate in an annual clothing exchange.

Improving public spaces

• Dearborn Academy students and staff painted a mural illustrating the town's history at the Arlington Bus station. Read more about this project

• Seaport Academy students decorate lampposts in Charlestown for the holidays.

• Dearborn Academy staff gave away daylilies from its gardens at Arlington Town Day.