This report describes the New Song Academy, led by New Song Urban Ministries (NSUM), which serves preK-8 children in Baltimore, Maryland, and promotes quality education for urban students through partnerships with families and the community. It operates year-round in six 6-week sessions. Despite the often chaotic nature of children's lives outside of school, the Academy averages a daily attendance rate of 98 percent. Children receive the intellectual, social, and physical basis they need to become community leaders. The school uses a home-schooling curriculum from Calvert School, which focuses on the fundamentals of language arts, and a school design developed by Expeditionary Learning/Outward Bound, which emphasizes hands-on learning and intimate, caring, interpersonal relationships. Through partnerships with outside organizations, the school brings the outside world and its resources into the community while encouraging linkages in the other direction. This report includes: (1) "A Snapshot of New Song Academy" (curricula, instruction, activities, and staffing); (2) "A History of New Song Academy and New Song Urban Ministries" (NSUM mission, core components, governance, and resources); (3) "New Song Academy's Accomplishments and Themes"; and (4) "Lessons from New Song Urban Ministries and New Song Academy." (SM)