Having outgrown its existing facility, Esperanza Academy recognized the critical need for a new, larger academic building that would allow the all-girls, tuition-free institution to enhance not only its middle school academic programming but also expand to offer enrollment to K-8 students.
The new building will include spaces for movement, music, art, therapy, learning, and dining. In addition to classrooms, it will also include a state-of-the-art laboratory space and a makerspace for engineering. Understanding the correlation between healthy eating and better academic performance, the new building will include a cafeteria; a community kitchen to support relationship and skill building, celebrate diverse cultural traditions, and offer hands-on learning for math and science; and an in-school bodega to provide no cost and no stigma access to healthy food and family necessities, school supplies, and winter clothing.
