School overview
Henry Grew Elementary School
How Grew is governed, what BPS has budgeted for it, and what local decisions are public. Part of Boston Public Schools.
Who makes school-level decisions at Grew?
Grew is part of Boston Public Schools and is ultimately governed by the mayor-appointed Boston School Committee. At the school level, Grew's own information sheet says the School Site Council is the governing body and participates in school-based decision-making. Parents enter that structure through the School Parent Council, which elects five to eight Site Council representatives.
Every family belongs to the Parent Council
The school says every parent or guardian of a Grew student is automatically an SPC member. The group meets monthly, chooses activities and support for the school, and elects its leadership each year.
The Site Council is the governing body
The same sheet explicitly distinguishes the two bodies: the Parent Council builds family participation, while the School Site Council joins elected family representatives with teachers and staff for school-based decisions.
The current local decision record is missing
The exhaustive public search found no Grew Site Council agenda, minutes, calendar, or current improvement plan for August 2025 through August 2026. That absence means the public budget shows what BPS planned, but not what Grew's council reviewed.
BPS sets the resource envelope
The FY27 one-pager uses BPS's Reimagine School Funding rules to assign staffing and flexible dollars. It plans $3.93 million and 33.7 FTE for 209 students, before centrally managed services that do not appear on the school sheet.
The lack of posted minutes does not establish that the Site Council failed to meet or review the budget; it establishes only that no usable public record was found.
Where the school stands
Planned school-level funds and positions; centrally budgeted services are not included.
Includes 11 general-education homeroom teachers, 3.8 ESL teachers, and one principal.
The budget input includes 192 students in K0-5 and 17 in grades 6-8.
$3,930,612.88 divided by 209 students. This is a calculated school-allocation figure, not BPS's total spending per student.
The sheet lists no IDEA allocation and says other grants are coming soon.
Major projects
FY27 Grew staffing and school budget
Allocated for FY27BPS's FY27 plan funds 33.7 FTE and $3.93 million for Grew. The largest elements are 11 general-education homeroom teachers, 3.8 ESL teachers, three K-5 specialists, one principal, and targeted special-education and high-need funding.
- BPS publishes Grew's FY27 allocation one-pager
- FY27 budget year begins
Funding
Boston Public Schools Reimagine School Funding allocation plus Title I
$3,930,612.88 planned total; the sheet includes a negative $107,413 transition adjustment and $79,500 in turnaround and transition funds.
Funding and staffing figures come directly from BPS's collected FY27 Grew allocation one-pager. Governance details come from the Parent Council information sheet currently linked by the school. Calculated figures are labeled as context.
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