a new way to school

LightHouse Holyoke is an accredited, competency-based middle and high school in Western Massachusetts for students in grades 7–12. Our relationship-driven model combines personalized academics with hands-on, real-world learning—including culinary arts, bicycle mechanics, and live event production in our two professional performing arts venues—while helping young people build the creativity, judgment, adaptability, and human skills that matter more than ever as AI changes how we learn, work, and create.

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Powerful Numbers

3:1

Student to staff ratio

Personalized, not standardized.

8

Average class size

Doing work that matters.

15

Towns in western mass

Our diversity is our greatest strength.

Our Mission

LightHouse is changing what school can be.
Our Founding Beliefs

Competency-Based
Education

Competency-based education is a learner-centered alternative to traditional letter grades. Each student’s unique set of strengths, needs, interests, goals, family and cultural background, and experiences are nurtured and leveraged to enable them to develop a host of research-based competencies using an array of personalized resources both inside and outside of LightHouse.
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Our Approach

Our competency-based approach meets young people where they are, centering youth voice and identity. Students work closely with a personal advisor to collaboratively build a personalized curriculum, drawing on resources both within LightHouse and throughout the larger community.

At LightHouse, school becomes a hub of care and support—and the world becomes the classroom.
Community
Reflection
Self-Direction
Knowledge and Understanding
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News

Career Pathways in the Age of AI: Notes from the Long Table

What a dinner conversation about disrupted careers taught us about education, judgment, and what matters when machines can do the rest.

What happens when the path you thought you were on disappears? That was the question we brought to the Long Table on August 5. Around the table that evening were […]

Two Years In: Building the Future of Education in Holyoke

The Future of Education

Two years ago this week, LightWorks Collective took ownership of 92–114 Race Street in downtown Holyoke. We thought we had acquired a building. Looking back, I think what we really […]
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