The Hurley is proud to be a thriving neighborhood school actively supported by the South End community. The school carefully selects partners that enhance the curriculum and meet its high academic standards.

Neighborhood Partners

Since 2003, the Neighborhood Parents for the Hurley School (NPHS) has been our primary funding partner, working closely with the school to supplement its academic and artistic programming and renovate its facilities. With the goal of making the Hurley the best K–8 school in the city and a model for an integrated urban education, NPHS organizes annual fundraisers, writes grants, and solicits private donations.

The surrounding Worcester Street neighborhood and South End community have also played an important role in our history. In the late 1990s, Worcester Street residents and the Hurley Blocks Neighborhood Association worked with the school to spearhead a $500,000 fundraising effort to improve the Hurley grounds. With funding and support from the Browne Fund, the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, the Boston Parks Department, City Year, the South End Land Trust, Boston Cares, area businesses and universities, and scores of South End neighbors like West Concord Street resident and Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, the school received a new playground, outdoor plaza, amphitheater, and landscaped garden.

Program Partners

We are also greatful to count among our supporters a wide range of local foundations, businesses, and organizations that provide enrichment programming and support for Hurley students and teachers. These include:

• Arbour Counseling

• Second Step

• USES - Club 48

• St. Stephen's Programming

• Hurley's Bodega de Arte Afterschool Program Partnerships:

  • Strong Women Strong Girls

  • Peace Through Play - Northeastern University

  • Boston University - BUILD Tutors

• Community Music Center of Boston, provides instrumental and vocal music instruction during the school day for grades 3-5.

• Madres Mentoras, brings parents through a program lead by St. Stephens to provide support in classrooms during the school day.

• The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum is a year-long language arts curriculum for 6th grade Scholars to examine courage in their lives.

• Playworks impacts our school environment through safe, healthy, inclusive play and physical activity for students, Junior Coach leadership training and conflict resolution skill building.

• Handel and Haydn Society - brings music education to younger grades at the Hurley.

• Minni - Provides afterschool art program for students grades 2 - 5

• New England Chess School - brings chess to students in grades 2 - 5 once a week after school

• Boston Debate League - debate league for middle school students.

• Boston Scores Soccer - After school soccer program for middle school students

• Community Music Center of Boston, provides instrumental and vocal music instruction during the school day for grades 3-5.

• St. Stephen's Youth Programs - After school program for Hurley students, starting in K1

• Playworks - impacts our school environment through safe, healthy, inclusive play and physical activity for students, Junior Coach leadership training and conflict resolution skill building.

• Strong Women Strong Girls, Northeastern University, creates rich relationships with role models and mentors for girls in elementary grades.

• Girls on the Run, in partnership with Boston Community Pediatrics, after school running and empowerment program for girls in grades 3 - 5.