School overview
Innovation Academy Charter School
Enrollment-driven staffing changes, graduation policy, charter renewal, course planning, and facilities agreements.
What is changing at Innovation Academy?
Innovation Academy is governed by an eleven-member Board of Trustees. During the reviewed year the board authorized a solar-canopy agreement, approved new graduation and competency rules, received unconditional charter renewal, and reviewed a FY27 plan that shifts staff from high school to middle school.
The FY27 plan assumes 780 students
The March budget review projected $14.62 million in revenue and proposed removing 4.5 high-school FTEs, including one academic leadership role, while expanding middle-school enrollment.
Graduation requirements changed
The board approved revised graduation requirements and a local competency determination in October 2025 after Massachusetts removed MCAS as the statewide graduation test requirement.
The charter was renewed unconditionally
After a preliminary state review raised governance, academic-oversight, licensing, and dissemination concerns, the March minutes reported unconditional approval on February 8.
Middle-school programming is being reorganized
The May plan adds honors offerings, mixed-grade cohorts, and an IACS 102 course while changing the rotation of specials.
The official archive provides readable approved minutes through May 2026, but it does not expose agendas or packets as individual files through the same archive, one linked Drive file was inaccessible, and no June 2026 approved minutes were present during collection.
What the official public record shows
Ten alternate current-period representations were verified as duplicates; 40 older stored records were excluded as out of the 12-month window.
Budget-review projection based on 780 students and conservative per-pupil assumptions.
Context calculation from projected total revenue and enrollment; not an audited per-pupil expenditure.
Major projects
FY27 enrollment and staffing plan
Budget assumptions presentedThe plan shifts resources toward a larger middle school and reduces 4.5 high-school FTEs, including one academic leadership position.
- Board reviewed a $320,000 enrollment-related FY26 deficit
- FY27 budget and staffing assumptions presented
Funding
Projected FY27 revenue
Solar canopy and power-purchase project
Lease and purchase agreement authorizedThe board authorized the Head of School and counsel to execute the solar-canopy lease and power-purchase agreement with only minor edits.
- Execution authority approved unanimously
Funding
2026-30 strategic and accountability plans
Plans under developmentThe board and staff are developing a strategic plan and a new state accountability plan for the renewed charter term.
- Board reviewed course planning and accountability-plan process
Funding
Recent alerts by topic
Identity, charter governance, board membership, and public sources were checked against NCES and Innovation Academy's official website. Ten trailing-year approved-minutes files were reviewed chronologically. Ten additional current-period source rows are verified alternate representations created while replacing unstable Google Drive viewer downloads; 40 stored rows are older, out-of-window artifacts from that same migration.
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