Boston Collegiate Charter School Foundation Inc

Programs: The boston collegiate charter school foundation supports boston collegiate charter school (bccs), providing funding, facilities and other support. In addition to general support, the foundation raised funds for specific programs. For example, the foundation grants support student activities that complement core academic programming and support bccs's mission of preparing each student for college; robust arts programming (visual, performing, industrial); academic support (summer academy); alumni programming; and programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem), including robotics club and a stem robotics camp. The foundation also stewards resources directed to the bccs capacity to lead campaign, a capital campaign to ensure that bccs students have access to facilities that will prepare them for college. Here are some of the outcomes that this funding has enabled at bccs, an inner-city, very diverse school of nearly 700 that admits students by lottery:last year, as in every year since 2004, 100% of bccs graduates have earned acceptance for a four-year college. Bccs's graduates' success in college persistence continued this year. 97% of our college freshmen told us on our alumni survey that boston collegiate charter school either prepared or over-prepared them for college-level academics, and of our total graduates since 2010, over 80% are either currently enrolled in or have graduated from college despite the rate of college graduation for urban youth nationally being less than 10%. Academic success as measured by standardized testing continued:a. 100% of bccs 10th grade students scored advanced or proficient on the 2016 ela mcas exam, and 96% scored advanced or proficient on the 2016 math mcas exam. B. More advanced placement tests than ever were taken in 2016, with more than 50% of the exams receiving scores that qualify students for college credit. In ap literature, this rate was 75%. In 2016, u. S. News and world report ranked boston collegiate charter school as the #13 high school in massachusetts, outscoring a large number of high-caliber, well-regarded suburban high schools. Based on the most recent advanced placement test scores, we are the highest performing non-selective school in boston.