ourschoolboard.org Find my school

District overview

Natick Public Schools

Natick's budget, school-building work, student policies, and district planning in the official record.

What is shaping Natick's next school year?

A town school system balancing a $100.65 million operating request with major building work

Natick's elected School Committee approves policy, budget requests, and district leadership agreements. During the collected period it advanced the Memorial Elementary building study, adopted new student-device and graduation policies, and requested an FY27 appropriation intended largely to maintain current services while making targeted reallocations.

The FY27 appropriation request is $100.65 million

The committee unanimously approved the request for Town Meeting, a 5.4% increase described as largely level-service funding with budget-neutral strategic reallocations.

Memorial Elementary entered a $2.6 million feasibility-study phase

The committee authorized the borrowing request while noting that costs beyond any MSBA grant remain the town's responsibility.

A new personal-device policy was adopted

Policy JICJ uses school-approved storage locations and was approved unanimously after discussion of enforcement and a future review.

Capital planning extends beyond Memorial

The committee submitted a $6.06 million FY27 capital request and later reported a $150,000 grant for Lilja HVAC and heat-pump work.

The archive currently stops at April 6, 2026. Later agendas, votes, and implementation updates may exist but are not yet present as approved minutes on the durable official archive pages.

What the public record shows

Official records reviewedcontext
15 minutes

All files were unique and text-readable.

FY27 appropriation requestverified
100.651 $ millions
Memorial feasibility authorizationverified
2.6 $ millions
FY27 capital submissionverified
6.06 $ millions

Major projects

Memorial Elementary MSBA project

Feasibility and owner-project-manager procurement

The building committee reported that owner-project-manager proposals were being solicited and community meetings would follow preliminary design.

Next: Preliminary design and public engagement
  1. The committee approved a $2.6 million feasibility-study borrowing request.
  2. The building committee reported that owner-project-manager proposals were being solicited and community meetings would follow preliminary design.

Funding

Town borrowing request with potential MSBA reimbursement

Lilja Elementary HVAC and heat-pump work

$150,000 climate grant approved

The superintendent reported approval of a $150,000 grant.

Next: Design and project-scope decisions
  1. The committee supported climate-grant applications for the Lilja HVAC project.
  2. The superintendent reported approval of a $150,000 grant.

Funding

Climate Leaders grant plus future local/MSBA project funding

Recent alerts by topic

Identity and governance were checked against official state, district, and town pages. The recurring collector reads Natick's official year-by-year School Committee minutes indexes. All 15 unique staged PDFs were reviewed chronologically from September 2025 through April 2026; every file yielded usable extracted text.

Get alerts for Natick Public Schools

We read every agenda, packet, and set of minutes, and write up the decisions that affect families — each one linked to the document it came from.

View alerts for this district