School overview
Roger Clap Elementary School
Who decides at Clap, what the merger changes, and what the public record does not show. Part of Boston Public Schools.
Who made the decision that ends Clap as a separate school?
Roger Clap Elementary is governed districtwide by the Boston School Committee and locally through a School Site Council. The School Committee approved Clap's merger with Winthrop into Lilla G. Frederick Elementary; BPS says the two schools became one effective June 30, 2026. No public trailing-year Clap School Site Council agenda or minutes archive was found, so the local body's recent advice, budget review, and transition work cannot be reconstructed from online records.
Boston School Committee
The citywide governing body approved the merger that takes effect for the 2026-27 school year.
Clap School Site Council
This is the school-level decision body, but its current agendas, minutes, roster, and recent votes were not publicly available in the searched official and archived sources.
Transition leadership
BPS assigned a senior project manager and hired stipended school-based transition support coordinators to work with Clap and Winthrop leadership.
The absence of online council records does not establish that the council failed to meet; it means its recent work cannot be independently reviewed through the public web record collected here.
Where the school stands
BPS's merger appendix reports the final pre-merger enrollment snapshot.
BPS reports this score in its merger appendix; the collected page does not define the scoring methodology.
BPS funds schools within its district budget, but the available Clap-specific records do not provide a current allocation or per-pupil spending figure. Central services, facilities, transportation, and benefits would not be captured by a school allocation alone.
Major projects
Clap-Winthrop merger into Lilla G. Frederick Elementary
Merger effective; fall opening nextClap and Winthrop became one unified school on June 30, 2026. Their communities are scheduled to attend a new PreK-6 Lilla G. Frederick Elementary at 270 Columbia Road in fall 2026.
- Clap and Winthrop officially become one unified school
Funding
Boston Public Schools; project amount not stated in the collected school-specific record
BPS describes minor building upgrades but does not publish their cost on the collected project page.
Two school-specific official BPS HTML publications were collected, stored, extracted, and reviewed. Official BPS pages, indexed official PDFs, Boston public notices, the school profile, and web archives were searched for trailing-year Clap School Site Council records.
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