Oxford Day Academy

Oxford Day Academy transforms the traditional public high school model by engaging and developing intelligent, compassionate young leaders with the character, ability, and passion they need to create positive change in the world. Co-created with young people and their families, Oxford Day Academy is a public charter high school for the Sequoia Union High School District of San Mateo County, California. Oxford Day Academy's founding cohort of student leaders entered our school on August 14, 2017 at 1001 Beech Street in East Palo Alto. We are starting 2017 with a cohort of 9th grade students and will add a grade level each year through to 12th grade. We are kicking off the start of our school year partnering with Cañada College, Canopy, and YUCA. Our mission is to engage and develop intelligent, empathetic young leaders with the character, ability, and passion they need to create positive change in the world. To achieve this mission, our students spend half of their time each day out in their local community completing real-world electives and internships, and then use these experiences to design think their way through social issues that matter most to them. Our expert teachers use Oxford-style tutorials to help students apply personalized academics to these service projects. Through this approach, our young people will develop not only deep content mastery, but also the open-ended problem solving and interpersonal communication skills required to become impactful leaders for positive social change, both at home and around the globe.