District overview
Boston Collegiate Charter School
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How is this Commonwealth charter funded and governed?
Boston Collegiate is a Commonwealth charter school serving grades 5–12 at lower- and upper-school campuses in Dorchester. Massachusetts calculates charter tuition for students' sending districts, while Boston Collegiate's own Board of Trustees holds the charter and oversees finances, the school leader, accountability, and long-term strategy.
One charter LEA and one school
The state lists Boston Collegiate as an operating independent public charter district with one grade 5–12 school.
Two Dorchester campuses
Grades are organized between the Lower School at 215 Sydney Street and Upper School at 11 Mayhew Street under one governing board.
Trustees hold the charter
The official board page says the board may have up to 22 voting members with rotating three-year terms and is responsible for financial health, the school leader, and charter accountability.
State-calculated charter tuition
Operating public revenue follows enrolled students through Massachusetts' charter-tuition system rather than a municipal school-committee appropriation controlled by Boston Collegiate.
The collected record is agenda-heavy. It shows what trustees planned to discuss or vote on but often does not establish the final action, supporting documents, or financial amounts.
Where the district stands
Context from the Massachusetts DESE school profile; not a collected board document.
DESE's all-funds measure covers the charter district's total expenditures and 693.7 pupil FTEs.
Context for a cohort of 74 students; subgroup values may be suppressed by DESE.
DESE reports 324 of 711 included students absent at least 10 days.
Calculated from the collected corpus; committee meetings are counted separately as three occurrences.
Major projects
2026–29 strategic plan
Approval vote appeared on the January agenda; outcome not establishedThe agenda scheduled an overview and approval vote for the 2026–29 strategic plan.
- Trustees opened a strategic-planning discussion.
- The board retreat worked through a SWOT analysis, directional pillars, and possible metrics.
- The agenda scheduled an overview and approval vote for the 2026–29 strategic plan.
Funding
Not identified in the collected agendas
Graduation and CD requirements revision
Vote scheduled; result and final requirements unavailableThe board agenda scheduled a vote on revised graduation and CD requirements.
- The board agenda scheduled a vote on revised graduation and CD requirements.
Funding
Not applicable
FY27 operating budget
Approval vote scheduled; amounts and result unavailableThe Finance Committee reviewed FY26 April year-to-date results, investment policy, cash, and investments.
- The Finance Committee update included a scheduled board vote on FY27 budget approval.
- The Finance Committee reviewed FY26 April year-to-date results, investment policy, cash, and investments.
Funding
Charter tuition and other school revenue; the collected agendas provide no figures
AI Working Group
Exploratory panel discussion; no policy action documentedThe board agenda reserved 40 minutes for an AI Working Group panel discussion.
- The board agenda reserved 40 minutes for an AI Working Group panel discussion.
Funding
Not identified
Eleven official board and committee agendas from Boston Collegiate and the Boston City Clerk were collected and reviewed chronologically. Current Massachusetts DESE profiles provide contextual enrollment, spending, attendance, and graduation figures.
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