Individualized, compassionate
learning - year round.

What Is Spero Academy?

Spero Academy is a tuition-free, K-6 elementary charter school located in Northeast Minneapolis. Spero Academy’s mission is to provide a personalized and adaptive education to help each student grow ​academically, emotionally, and socially. Our programing and instruction is designed to support students with various disabilities.

Why Spero Academy?

Families choose Spero Academy for the small classroom sizes, 11-month academic calendar, tuition-free individualized academic programming, and the day-to-day success they celebrate with their children. Families also appreciate that our therapy services allow students to set and attain goals and objectives all within the safe spaces of Spero Academy. Spero is a place where every child is welcomed and encouraged to be themselves! At Spero, we motivate each student to shine as brightly as they can! We have many resources for students and families and encourage every student to participate in all that Spero stands for and embodies.

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A Subtle and Sensitive New Look

At Spero Academy, we offer every student a high-quality education and a calm, welcoming environment in which to pursue it. We carefully assemble our highly qualified staff by prioritizing caring and compassionate individuals because we know those traits enhance their teaching abilities. We want our community to have a clearer understanding of our focus on the values that represent our staff, so we are changing our presentation to reflect the softer, empathetic side of our Spero persona. 

Moving forward, you'll note that the colors of our imagery are softening from brights and bolds to pastels and neutrals. We chose the new hues and shades because they represent trust, empathy, growth, and optimism, each of which is a foundational tenet of our school. We hope you will enjoy the new "look" of Spero Academy as much as we do! 

A Sensory-Sensitive New Space

After several years in our rented space on 6th Street, we are excited to be moving into a new facility in 2018. The August 22, 2017 groundbreaking ceremony was the first step to making our dream of a 21st-century learning center a physical reality.

The new Spero Academy facility will be so much more than just a new building, however. Our designers, HDR Inc., worked for months to ensure that the new layout and surfaces incorporate the building and education industries' best practices for schools that support students with disabilities, focusing specifically on researched-based design for students with an autism spectrum disorder. Designed to reduce environmental and sensory barriers while facilitating learning and fun, the new Academy will be a safe and calming place for every student and all those who support and love them.