The mission of Boston Collegiate Charter School is to prepare each student for college. We offer an academically rigorous college preparatory curriculum for students in grades five through twelve. 100% of our graduates have been accepted to college; 80% of them will be the first in their families to complete a college degree.
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College Acceptances and Academic Achievement
100% of each graduating class has been accepted to college. The class of 2010 received an average of over five acceptances per student and over $1.4 million in merit-based scholarships.
100% of 10th graders passed the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Math MCAS exams. Our school is the only public, non-exam school in Massachusetts to achieve this performance for eight consecutive years.
For the third straight year, 100% of 10th graders scored Advanced or Proficient on the Math MCAS, making Boston Collegiate the number one district in the state.
Over 99% of Boston Collegiate's students have passed the 10th grade English MCAS over the past eight consecutive years. On average, 84% have scored Advanced or Proficient.
Hundreds of Applications and a Lengthy Waiting List
Our waiting list currently exceeds 2,180 students.
The school accepts students by random public lottery and receives an increasing number of applications each year - more than eighteen times the number of available seats.
Strong Parent Satisfaction and Parental Choice
97% of families who respond to an annual survey report being very satisfied or satisfied with our educational program.
According to our family survey, parents choose to send their children to Boston Collegiate for our higher academic standards, college preparatory mission, and excellent teachers.
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We want to re-imagine what a school can be. We want to hire the most knowledgeable, the most
stimulating, and the most enthusiastic instructors. We want to show students the miraculous
features of the natural world and the beauty of writing the perfect sentence. We want students
to see not the struggle of the challenge but the pleasure of the struggle…We, as parents,
educators, and community members, want to transfer and infuse the love we have for learning
to the children of Boston. We want to show kids what school and their future can be and not
what it has to be. This is the ethos of our school.
We want to re-imagine what a school can be. We want to hire the most knowledgeable, the most
stimulating, and the most enthusiastic instructors. We want to show students the miraculous
features of the natural world and the beauty of writing the perfect sentence. We want students
to see not the struggle of the challenge but the pleasure of the struggle…We, as parents,
educators, and community members, want to transfer and infuse the love we have for learning
to the children of Boston. We want to show kids what school and their future can be and not
what it has to be. This is the ethos of our school.
