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Curley K-8 School

Who governs Curley, how its FY27 allocation and staffing are changing, and what the School Site Council is working on. Part of Boston Public Schools.

Who decides what happens at Curley?

School-level council within a mayor-appointed district system

Curley is governed by Boston Public Schools and the mayor-appointed Boston School Committee. At the school, the School Site Council is the shared decision-making body: its published role includes reviewing the full budget, approving the Quality School Plan and discretionary-materials budget, and participating in hiring.

BPS controls district policy and funding

The Boston School Committee governs BPS, adopts the district budget, sets policy, and supervises the superintendent.

The SSC has defined local authority

Curley's council reviews the school budget, approves the Quality School Plan and certain discretionary spending, and participates in hiring.

Parents and staff share council seats

Curley's published structure calls for seven elected parents and six BTU representatives, with the principal and parent co-chair leading meetings.

The School Parent Council is different

The parent organization supports family participation and fundraising and works with the SSC, but it is not the school's statutory shared decision-making body.

The SSC can shape school plans and recommendations, but BPS controls the district funding model and central decisions that constrain the school's options.

Where the school stands

2025-26 enrollmentverified
955 students
FY27 budget enrollmentverified
989 students

This is the enrollment input used for allocation, not the current state-reported headcount.

FY27 school allocationverified
17,455,195.2 dollars

The school allocation includes 139.1 FTE and excludes transportation, facilities, benefits, and other central costs.

FY27 allocation per projected studentcontext
17,649 dollars per student

Context: $17,455,195.20 divided by the one-pager's 989-student budget projection; this is not total district spending per student.

Major projects

FY27 budget and staffing transition

Allocation published; staffing implementation underway

Transition funding reduced an earlier 10% cut scenario, but the SSC record still describes six educator FTE reductions and changes to specialized roles and strands.

Next: Complete hiring and implement the 2026-27 staffing model while monitoring inclusion services and transition funding.
  1. SSC reviews enrollment projection and new funding model
  2. SSC reviews transition funding and planned staffing reductions
  3. BPS publishes Curley's FY27 allocation one-pager
  4. SSC receives year-end staffing update

Funding

BPS FY27 school allocation, including $622,754 in RSF transition supports

The March one-pager allocates $17,455,195.20; it does not include central district costs.

Schoolwide technology-use guidance

Audit and community process planned; no final rule

The SSC and Curley Family Association are organizing an audit and work group to define purposeful technology use and improve family transparency.

Next: Document current screen use, gather family and student input, and return with draft guidance; proposed handbook language was tabled.
  1. SSC outlines audit, work group, town-hall, and public-comment steps

Funding

No dedicated amount identified in the collected record

The work is framed as a school policy and engagement process.

The review followed Curley's School Site Council record from October 2025 through June 2026, the filed city agendas, the current school and state profiles, and BPS's FY27 allocation one-pager. Every collected staging source was accounted for in a chronological ledger.

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