The Academy of the Pacific Rim (APR) is a nationally recognized, tuition-free, charter public school located in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood. Our mission is to empower students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds to achieve their full intellectual and social potential. Our students have focused minds and big hearts. On a daily level in classrooms and in extracurricular activities, we want to see students working on authentic tasks where they must build, process, and apply knowledge to understand and shape both themselves and their world.