Current Role: CEO & Superintendent at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy

Fellowship Role: Deputy Superintendent at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy

Sarah Anderson is the Deputy Superintendent at Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy.

In this role, she oversees programming and supports Heads of School at a high performing network of intentionally diverse charter schools. Her career has focused on the needs of high poverty, high minority schools and the pursuit of excellence for all students. Sarah joined BVP from the Office of Transformation and Charter Schools at the Rhode Island Department of Education, where her work included policy development on school accountability and college readiness, direct support to district leadership teams on school reform, and developing new school leaders committed to advancing educational equity.

She spent 10 years as a middle school English teacher, instructional coach, and data specialist in the Grand Rapids, MI and the New York City public schools, where she was part of the leadership team that took a school from “failing” to one of the top ten schools citywide.