Engaging Voracious Minds
Acera is a K-9 school serving gifted students in Greater Boston. We are committed to keeping your child’s curiosity alive through individualized learning pathways, purpose-filled projects, ability-based math classes, and engaging electives that remove the ceiling of what is possible at school.
Reminder
Join us for an Information Session designed for parents, guardians, and other adults interested in learning more about Acera. July 8, 2025 – 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Reminder
Join us for an Information Session designed for parents, guardians, and other adults interested in learning more about Acera. July 8, 2025 – 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Our goal is to inspire curiosity, catalyze intrinsic motivation, and teach kids to think like scientists, innovators, makers, and leaders. That’s why electives like “The Psychology of the Iliad” or “Philosophy and Contemporary Issues” are so impactful: they blend disciplines and enable students to construct authentic understanding.
Hands-on learning leads to stronger knowledge retention. Because students are building, experimenting, simulating, and discussing, they actually remember more of what they learn; instead of convergent thinking, students learn to take a systems viewpoint and think critically and develop lots of ways to solve problems; knowledge retention happens along the way because learning is pinned onto something meaningful. Projects become the vehicle for understanding: building a marble run to explore Newtonian physics, or creating a podcast to synthesize research and express ideas clearly.
The school’s approach is constructivist and inquiry-driven. Kids build concepts and academic skills from doing, experimenting, and discussing—an approach that’s more work for teachers, but vastly more effective for students.
July 8, 2025 – 9:30 – 11:00 a.m
August 19, 2025 – 9:30 – 11:00 a.m
September 18, 2025 – 7:00 – 8:30 p.m
Get to know more about our school and what makes us truly unique.
Average Enrollment
Half of our students are in grades 6-8.
A regional hub
Diversity
Immersive Electives
Unmatched Enrichment Program
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