School overview
Dever Elementary School
How Dever was governed, funded, and closed, and what remains on the public record. Part of Boston Public Schools.
Who decided Dever's future?
Dever was a Boston Public Schools campus under Massachusetts receivership. The Boston School Committee approved closure in March 2025 after consultation with DESE, and the school permanently closed June 30, 2026. The receiver and district managed the final-year transition; no public trailing-year Dever School Site Council record was found.
The School Committee approved closure
BPS says the committee voted March 20, 2025 to close Dever at the end of 2025-26. DESE's current record confirms that the school permanently closed June 30, 2026.
Receivership changed school-level authority
DESE identifies School & Main Institute as Dever's receiver. BPS says the closure recommendation was made in consultation with DESE because the school was in receivership.
Families received transition supports
BPS says every impacted student received individual counseling, one-on-one Welcome Services help, and priority in the 2026-27 assignment process.
Local council records are unavailable
No trailing-year Dever School Site Council agenda, minutes, roster, calendar, or current school plan appeared in the school page, BPS archive, Boston notices, DESE record, or indexed searches.
The absence of a public council archive does not prove the council did not meet; it means families cannot reconstruct its final-year work from the searched official channels.
Dever at closure
No Dever School Site Council agenda, minutes, roster, calendar, or current school plan was found in the searched official channels.
Major projects
Dever closure and family transition
Completed June 2026BPS closed Dever after its final school year and assigned staff to help students and families choose and move to other schools.
- Boston School Committee approved closure after a proposal and community process
- Students, families, and staff completed Dever's final school year
- DESE records Dever as permanently closed
Funding
BPS operating and capital-planning support; no school-specific transition amount is stated in the collected record
The FY27 budget page publishes districtwide funding materials, but the collected sources do not report Dever's transition cost or a final-year per-student expenditure.
This overview uses the complete five-record staging corpus collected for August 20, 2025 through August 20, 2026. Every stored record was reviewed chronologically or, for the undated state profile, in the identity batch; all five were readable and no byte duplicates were present.
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