School overview
Community Academy
Who governed Community Academy, why its diploma program closed, and what replaces it. Part of Boston Public Schools.
Who decided the school's future?
Community Academy was a BPS alternative high school governed by the mayor-appointed Boston School Committee. The committee approved ending its diploma-granting role after the 2025-26 school year. BPS says the Glen Road site is being reimagined for temporary placements after conduct violations and for students returning from the Department of Youth Services.
The district made the closure decision
BPS proposed the closure in January 2025 and records a School Committee approval on March 20, 2025.
Students were promised individual transitions
BPS says each affected student would receive counseling and a transition plan; eligible seniors were expected to graduate in June 2026.
No trailing-year local leadership record is online
Searches of the school and district sites, municipal meeting archives, Google Drive, YouTube, and web archives found no Community Academy School Site Council agenda or minutes dated August 20, 2025 through August 20, 2026.
School-level spending is not published here
The collected school-specific record does not state a current school allocation or per-student spending figure. District funding and central services therefore cannot be cleanly converted into a Community Academy spending number.
The missing local minutes do not establish that a School Site Council failed to meet; they establish only that no trailing-year online record was located.
What is on the public record
The official closure page reports 4 ninth-graders, 21 tenth-graders, 12 eleventh-graders, and 25 twelfth-graders.
Capacity is reported for the Glen Road building, not enrollment in the replacement program.
BPS reports this score on the school closure page; the page does not explain the scoring scale.
No current school allocation was present in the collected school-specific record, and central services such as transportation, facilities, and benefits should not be guessed into a school-level figure.
Major projects
Transition from diploma school to re-entry program
Diploma role ended; replacement model describedBPS ended Community Academy's diploma-granting role after 2025-26 and says the site will support temporary placements and soft re-entry from the Department of Youth Services.
- Boston School Committee approves the closure; BPS says the diploma role would end in June 2026 without stating an exact day
Funding
BPS operating and specialized-services funding; no school-specific amount appears in the collected record
A senior project manager and stipended transition coordinators were assigned, but BPS does not state their cost on this page.
The closure, transition, enrollment, and facilities facts come from the collected official BPS page. No trailing-year local School Site Council agenda or minutes were found, so the page states those governance and spending gaps directly.
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