SailFuture Academy is a tuition-free career preparatory high school that leverages project-based learning and paid apprenticeships to prepare students for the real world.
As an organization, we offer a broad range of programs and services designed to holistically treat childhood trauma and equip teens with the skills and resources necessary to navigate life.
SailFuture recruits passionate leaders who are ready to leverage their talents and experience to level the playing field for teens in foster care, and non-traditional academic settings.
Whether you are a general contractor, teacher, social worker, or boat captain, there is a home for you to make the impact of a lifetime at SailFuture.
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SailFuture Teaching Life Skills through Sailing
SailFuture Academy is a free, private school in Florida that teaches disadvantaged youth life skills including the art of sailing.
Good Morning America
Free private High School Empowers Students
The program will focus on giving students career skills in a real-life environment.
The Weekly Challenger
National nonprofit ‘pressure-tests’ innovative education choice programs in Florida and beyond
A more recent project is SailFuture Academy, a St. Petersburg foster care agency that is opening a vocational high school this fall for lower-income who have become disengaged in traditional high school settings.
ReImagine Education
Tiny private school aims to boost struggling Pinellas teens
The program will focus on giving students career skills in a real-life environment.
Tampa Bay Times
SailFuture Academy moves into New Building
A project-based high school serving underprivileged students in Pinellas County is enrolling students for its first year in a new building, starting this fall.
WTSP Tampa Bay
SailFuture opens historic Norwood School, prepares youth for success
SailFuture serves teens throughout the St. Petersburg community, and with the purchase and recent redevelopment of the historic Norwood Elementary School, the innovative organization is better equipped to prepare kids for success as adults.
St. Pete Catalyst
