Summary:
UP Academy Charter School of Dorchester (District) is a single-school charter district in Boston, Massachusetts, serving grades PK–8 with 640 students at 35 Westville Street — the one school is UP Academy Charter School of Dorchester. Because the district contains only one school, district-level results are identical to the school's results, and there is no peer school inside the district to compare against.
On the whole, the school's results sit well below Massachusetts averages. In 2025–26, all-grade English Language Arts proficiency was 20.83% versus 40.03% statewide, Mathematics 20.84% versus 41.11%, and Science 21.14% versus 40.98% — each roughly half the state rate. The clear bright spot is 8th grade Civics, the only subject and grade where the school beats the state in both years: 43.40% versus 39.77% in 2025–26 and 40.91% versus 39.16% in 2024–25. Other relative strengths include 8th grade Math (37.74% vs 41.67%, a gap of just −3.93 points) and 6th grade ELA (29.03% vs 40.26%, the smallest ELA gap in grades 3–8).
Year over year, Math rose 8.50 points (12.34% to 20.84%), Science rose 7.92 points (13.22% to 21.14%), and Civics rose 2.49 points, while ELA slipped 1.42 points. Performance varies sharply by grade: 8th grade Math outscored 7th grade Math by 20.09 points, and 6th grade ELA outscored 5th grade ELA by 14.74 points. Grade 5 is the weakest area, with ELA and Science both at 14.29%. The school spends $16,769 per student (2020–21) with an 11:1 student-teacher ratio (2024–25), and ranks 311 of 351 districts and 802 of 899 schools statewide in 2025–26 — the 11th percentile, up from 8th percentile in 2023–24.
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