About UP Academy
Find Joy In Learning and Life
UP Academy, the unique private school in San Mateo, encourages students’ sense of wonder and curiosity.
Our Little Sunshines leading a fitness class at Fitness 19 as part of their Human Body project!
At UP, your child will:
Pursue academics through very small (12 students or less) mixed-age classes (frequently with two teachers) where children both get to learn what is uniquely challenging for them and learn how to coach their peers at their strengths.
Build daily empathy and collaboration skills through our play-based daily SEL curriculum.
Celebrate rather than hide the unique ways each child thinks and works, including how we all learn at different paces for different tasks.
Exercise a growth mindset by celebrating “messing upwards” through appropriate risk taking, reflection, redos, and a lot of humor.
Gain emotional intelligence through practicing mindfulness like Yoga (from our Yoga certified teachers).
Uncover their natural creativity through our Innovation Lab (atelier), daily art class, daily individual passion project time, and real-world schoolwide projects.