Unlocking Potential is a nonprofit school turnaround organization which rapidly transforms chronically underperforming urban public schools into extraordinary, high-performing, sustainable schools. Our turnaround schools ensure that students acquire the knowledge, skills, and strength of character necessary to succeed on the path to college and to achieve their full potential.

Unlocking Potential currently manages and operates UP Academy Charter School of Boston, which opened its doors to nearly 500 middle school students on August 29, 2011. Unlocking Potential will launch its second turnaround school, also a middle school, in a Massachusetts gateway city  in fall 2012.  We intend to launch a third turnaround school, likely an elementary school in Boston, in fall 2013, pending state approval.  We are relentlessly committed to eliminating the Achievement Gap in Massachusetts and beyond.