School overview
Dearborn STEM Academy
Who makes Dearborn's decisions, how it is funded, and what the public record shows. Part of Boston Public Schools.
Who decides what happens at Dearborn?
Dearborn is a Boston Public Schools campus governed by the Boston School Committee. At the school, the School Site Council is the local leadership body expected to review the budget and school plan, but Dearborn's public council page does not post a calendar, agendas, minutes, members, or recent decisions.
Boston School Committee governs the district
The committee adopts the district budget and sets districtwide policy. Dearborn does not have a separate elected school board or LEA.
The School Site Council is the local body
BPS says every school must have a site council made up of parents, educators, the school leader, and, at high schools, students. It reviews the full school budget, approves discretionary spending, and reviews changes with a significant school impact.
Dearborn publishes the council's existence, not its work
The school site has a School Site Council page and a Parent Council contact path, but the page provides no trailing-year meeting dates, agendas, minutes, membership roster, or recorded actions.
Funding flows through Boston's school-budget process
BPS developed and voted its FY27 budget in public hearings from February through March 2026. The collected page links school allocations and funding rules, but does not state Dearborn's allocation in the visible page text.
The absence of online council records does not establish that the council failed to meet or that families were excluded; it establishes only that the reviewed public page does not document the work.
Where the school stands
The school describes itself as serving grades 7 through 12.
NCES 2024-25 and Massachusetts 2025-26 profiles both report 565 students; this is context because those profiles were not among the four reviewed school and budget pages.
No meeting calendar, agenda, minutes, roster, or decision record appears on the reviewed council page.
City of Boston FY27 budget context. This is districtwide and is not Dearborn's school allocation.
Major projects
FY27 school budget cycle
District budget adopted; local review not publishedBPS held four public budget sessions and scheduled its FY27 budget vote for March 25, 2026. The final budget page links school allocations and funding rules. Dearborn's School Site Council should review the school's budget, but its page provides no public record of that local review.
- BPS opened the FY27 public budget presentation cycle
- BPS held its hearing on school-specific investments and budgets
- BPS scheduled the FY27 budget vote
- Fiscal year 2027 began
Funding
Boston Public Schools FY27 operating budget
The collected index does not state Dearborn's school-level amount in visible text.
The page uses Dearborn's school website for current program and council facts, BPS's FY2027 budget page for the district budget timeline, and official NCES and Massachusetts profiles only as clearly labeled context.
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