School overview
Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter
How AMSA is governed and funded, what its public records show about student performance, and what is underway.
Who decides for this charter school?
AMSA is an independent Massachusetts public charter school, not a school operated by Marlborough Public Schools. Its Board of Trustees governs the school and approves major policy, budget, and leadership matters; the Executive Director and administrative team run daily operations.
The board makes school-wide decisions
The collected minutes record votes on the competency-determination policy, the school calendar, the Executive Director's contract, and other school-wide matters.
Most operating revenue is charter tuition
The proposed FY27 budget projects $18.484 million in tuition within $20.127 million of total income. Massachusetts charter tuition follows students from their sending districts; facilities support and other revenue are separate.
Academic concerns are concentrated in middle school
The Semester 1 report records 100 students with at least one failing grade and 136 failing grades overall; Grade 8 accounts for 57, including 23 in Grade 8 Physics.
The records also show active intervention: a Student Support Team, an Academic Support Center, math intervention, peer tutoring, added reading sections, and more standardized family communication. The public record identifies the concern and the response, but not yet the end-of-year outcome.
Where the school stands
Proposed budget, not described as adopted because approved May minutes were not in the collected archive.
The proposal projects $103,000 of net income.
Reported by AMSA for FY25 using 966 students.
The report records 136 failing grades; 57 were in Grade 8.
Major projects
Middle-school academic support expansion
Interventions underwayAfter Semester 1 data showed failures concentrated in Grades 6-8, AMSA expanded structured family communication, the Academic Support Center, peer tutoring, reading sections, and course-level review.
- Board minutes discuss failure patterns and expanded academic probation
- Semester 1 report records 100 students with at least one failing grade and outlines interventions
Funding
Operating budget and existing academic-support staffing
The reviewed records do not isolate a total project cost.
Campus capital plan
Multi-year facilities workThe October capital plan lists roughly $9.96 million of projects through 2036, including HVAC, bathroom work, fireproofing, and seismic-related work. Later records show individual projects moving forward, including science-lab cabinets and an upper-school boiler.
- Board packet publishes the multi-year capital plan
- Minutes record Finance Committee approval of $95,000 for science-lab cabinets outside the current budget and plan
- Finance report records approval of a $69,611 upper-school boiler from the long-term plan
Funding
Capital plan, operating resources, and project-specific approvals
The long-range schedule totals about $9.96 million; timing and funding vary by project.
This overview uses AMSA's Board of Trustees archive for the trailing year. Dollar figures and academic counts are verified against collected official records; derived figures and explanations of Massachusetts charter funding are marked as context.
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