School overview
Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter School
How this Horace Mann charter is governed and funded, what its budget shows, and what is underway.
How does a BPS Horace Mann charter work?
Boston Green Academy is a grade 7-12 Horace Mann charter within Boston Public Schools. Its Board of Trustees approves school budgets and policies and evaluates the Head of School, while the Head reports both to the Board and the BPS Superintendent. BPS supplies most operating funds through its school-allocation system; federal grants, restricted philanthropy, and school reserves cover a smaller share.
Primary funding
The final FY2027 plan includes a $9.169 million BPS allocation under the district's Reimagined School Funding rules, plus federal grants, restricted grants, and a $300,000 reserve contribution.
Shared authority
The Board approves the budget and school policies. BPS controls the main allocation, systemwide labor costs and services, and shares oversight of the Head of School under the Horace Mann arrangement.
One grade 7-12 school
The charter entity operates one Brighton campus and projected 460 students for the FY2027 allocation.
Budget drivers
The FY2027 record identifies collective-bargaining raises, health care, transportation, special education, BPS enrollment decline, and the end of temporary federal relief as major pressures.
Added BPS funding closed most of the roughly $1.08 million initial budget gap and the June amendment projected a small surplus. That does not erase the four FTE reduction or the continuing reliance on grants and reserves, but it is materially more stable than the January scenario.
Where the school stands
The same amendment projects $10.552 million of revenue and a $15,388 balance.
This is the largest single revenue source in the final school budget.
The allocation one-pager uses 460 students in its formula inputs.
$10,536,380 of final FY2027 expenses divided by 460 projected students. This is context, not a reported audited per-pupil expenditure.
The final budget also reduces stipends and line-item spending.
The state classified BGA as not requiring assistance or intervention, with 44% moderate progress toward targets.
Major projects
Modern facility and possible enrollment expansion
Early planningBGA developed a stakeholder-backed vision for a modern facility with expanded CTE, sustainability, inclusion, arts, athletics, and community space, using a planning assumption of up to 650 students.
- Board reviews stakeholder schedule and possible $20,000 architecture retainer
- Board supports submitting the educational-vision plan to BPS
- BPS, city operations, and public-facilities staff begin scoping possibilities and costs
- School remains awaiting a BPS/city update after other projects are resolved
Funding
No committed capital source in the collected record; BPS/City capital planning would be required
Minutes identify about $1.1 million in school reserves and about $1 million in the BGA Foundation as possible support, not as an approved construction budget.
FY2027 budget implementation
Four FTE reducedBGA moved from an approximately $1.08 million initial gap to a final plan with a small projected surplus through added BPS allocation, four FTE reductions, lower stipends and line items, grants, and reserves.
- Board approves provisional plan while BPS allocation remains under review
- Board approves FY2027 budget with four positions and other spending reduced
- Board unanimously approves amended $10.536 million expense plan
Funding
BPS Reimagined School Funding allocation, federal grants, restricted grants, and $300,000 of reserves
The amendment projects a $15,388 budget balance, not an audited year-end result.
2027-29 strategic plan
Target release December 2026The Board chose a three-year planning horizon because facilities and budgets remain uncertain and launched mission, vision, SWOT, and stakeholder-engagement work.
- Board creates an ad hoc strategic-planning committee
- Committee sets engagement milestones through June and a three-phase process
- Board reports that SWOT collection and planning are progressing
Funding
Normal school and Board operating resources
No separate planning appropriation is published in the collected records.
Five-year charter and accountability plan
New accountability plan dueThe school secured a five-year renewal without conditions after the state review rated access and equity, dissemination, and governance as meeting expectations while mission fulfillment only partially met expectations and academic results remained a growth area.
- SchoolWorks conducts the Board portion of the renewal inspection
- Board reviews the state's Year 15 Summary of Review
- School reports five-year renewal without conditions
Funding
Normal BPS school allocation and charter operating resources
Renewal does not establish a separate appropriation.
Review of all 65 logical official files collected from Boston Green Academy's public 2025-26 Board and committee Drive archive, covering 14 distinct meetings from September 2, 2025 through June 2, 2026. Sixty-three original objects were unique and two were byte-identical duplicates; PowerPoint files were reviewed through their slide content. Fourteen native Google Docs are also stored as byte-stable official text exports for recurring change detection.
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