Vision

The Curtis/Tufts is an alternative high school program that provides hope for students that have not succeeded in a mainstream high school. The major goals of Curtis/Tufts include: helping its students to acquire a 21st century education; promoting social, emotional and developmental growth; improving the self-esteem of its students as life-long learners; and successfully completing the Program while having developed the confidence for safe and independent living as productive, healthy contributors to a diverse and rapidly changing world.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Curtis/Tufts is to provide a therapeutic/educational environment that exhibits understanding, empathy and compassion for the individual needs of the students it serves. Additionally, the Program provides a means of improving student attendance and behavior while educationally motivating its students into responsible citizens, possessing personal integrity and the ability to be successful in today’s society. The Program collaborates with parents, state and local agencies, the legal system, business community, and medical and related service providers in its quest for a successful and fruitful outcome of high school graduation. This is the Program’s ultimate mission to which it will remain undaunted in this focus.

A Student’s Perspective

“The Curtis Tufts Alternative High School at a glance looks like a small outlet of other school systems for students unfit to attend their schools. On the inside, it is much more…It is a real community of students who have the opportunity to succeed to school while getting their needs met and their lives together, sometimes getting a second chance that other schools won’t give. Between the teachers and the counselors, we have the support we need and can meet our unique goals. The classes are much smaller, and allow for individual attention and independent work for people of different ability level. Our community is small, and no one is just a face in the crowd. You are a person at the Curtis, as opposed to an ID number at a larger school.”

-Graduate of the Curtis/Tufts Class of 2008