Urban Day School Career Opportunities

The mission of Urban Day School is to provide students, pre-kindergarten through eighth grade with a learning experience that emphasizes academic excellence and personal achievement, enabling the students to make a successful transition into higher education and to become value-creating leaders of society.

Urban Day School is Wisconsin's first nonsectarian community-supported private school. Our educational philosophy is rooted in individualized instruction. Urban Day School became a Charter School in 2010.

Urban Day School’s vision and continued capacity for community school leadership are central to the history of parental choice in education. Inspired by the quality education her four children receive at Urban Day School, State Assemblywoman Annette Polly Williams introduced state legislation in favor of government funding of education in parent-selected community schools. As a result of that legislation, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) came into being in 1990, gaining national recognition for the city and for Urban Day School. Few would argue with the fact that parental choice has stimulated positive change in Milwaukee education. Urban Day School is integral to the history and the continued success of parental choice in Milwaukee. Urban Day School became a Charter School in 2010. Over more than 40 years Urban Day School has become a comprehensive education resource for Milwaukee’s inner city. Today Urban Day School serves more than 900 central city children in its Elementary and Head Start and Day Care programs.