Welcome to Boston Collegiate Charter School!

Our mission is to prepare each student for college.

Boston Collegiate Charter School, founded as South Boston Harbor Academy Charter School, opened in 1998 to 120 students in grades 5, 6, and 7 and has grown to an enrollment of over 450 students in grades 5 through 12. Our goal is to instill in our students the expectation of college from the moment they walk through our doors. For five years in a row, 100% of the senior class has been accepted into college, earning over $4 million in merit scholarships! Boston Collegiate is the only public school in the state where 100% of tenth grade students have passed the mathematics MCAS for five consecutive years. Boston Collegiate students have outperformed their peers in Boston and Massachusetts year after year. In 2007, BCCS 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th graders posted higher passing and proficiency rates than Boston and Massachusetts averages on every exam administered.

“In Boston , for example, the New Orleans model of a broad portfolio of school operators could be reproduced by lifting the current cap on new charters and inviting the most successful or promising charter schools into BPS facilities at nominal rents. The city [of Boston] and the state could also encourage the highest performing charter schools to expand their work, in the same way that KIPP is creating a string of schools in New Orleans. Boston is home to some of the finest charter schools in America , including Roxbury Prep, Boston Collegiate Charter School, Academy of the Pacific Rim and MATCH.

Peyser, James A. “The Schools that Katrina built.” Boston Sunday Globe, 14 October 2007: E3.