Oakland Unified School District
TK-8 / Middle School
Urban Promise Academy
3031 East 18th Street, 94601
436-3636
www.urbanpromiseacademy.org
Site Code 236 | Options Code 50
Middle 6-8
Urban Promise Academy is a small middle school serving
roughly 300 students, located in the Fruitvale neighborhood.
We are a small school by design, serving families within the
Fruitvale community as well as students from throughout
Oakland. The mission of Urban Promise Academy is to
prepare a diverse, sixth to eighth grade student population
for success in college by equipping them with the skills,
knowledge, and habits of mind to become self-motivated,
competent, responsible community members and lifelong
learners. UPA has an engaging standards-based curriculum
that is rigorous and relevant; an emphasis on critical thinking,
investigation, and inquiry; a culture of high academic
expectations; a collaborative and reflective teaching staff;
supportive student culture; and family involvement that
increases student achievement. All students take daily
blocks of English, Math, Science and History, and Physical
Movement. UPA emphasizes inquiry based learning and arts
integration, actively involving students in the process of
learning through long-term projects, fieldwork experiences,
and expositions of their work. All students are supported
as individuals through a Crew system that maintains a
1-16 teacher-student ratio. Additionally, all students have
the opportunity to participate in an after-school sports
and enrichment program. Struggling students receive
intervention classes, either before school (AM Boost), during
the day, or in our afterschool tutoring program. Urban
Promise is a school that can demonstrate to our community
and to other schools that all students can achieve at high
levels, and we have the will and the skills to make that
happen. Our standardized test scores have risen steadily
since we opened in 2001.
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Enrollment Options Guide 2015-16
School Uniform Description
Students wear UPA shirts (many to choose
from), with khaki pants and white or black
shoes.
School Hours
8:00am to 3:03pm
Before School Programs
Supervision 8:00am to 8:45am
Afterschool Programs On or
Near Campus
Yes. All grades. From 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Special Education Services
Resource Specialist
Multilingual Programs/
English Learner Programs
Structured English Immersion
Public Transportation
Options
AC Transit lines 20, 21, 39, 40, 1, 1R and the
Fruitvale BART Station serve our school.
1st Choice 74%
EL % 39%
2010 Base API 733
African American % 3%
2011 Base API 749
Asian % 4%
2012 Base API 761
Latino % 86%
2013 Growth API 768
White % 2%
API Change ’10-’11 15
Pacif ic Islander % 1%
API Change ’11-’12 12
Native American % 0%
API Change ’12-’13 7
Filipino % 1%
Weighted 3-Year API Average 759
Multiple % 0%
Total Enrollment 324
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(800 = State Level Proficiency)
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