2020 – 2021 School Profile

415 State Street Springfield, MA 01105

Main Office: 413-787-7220 Fax: 413-787-7796 Mr. Paul Neal Website: Commerce Your Future Begins Here! Executive Principal

Dr. Sonia Dinnall SCHOOL Principal Springfield Public Schools and The Springfield Empowerment Zone: Unique and Set apart Mr. Andrew Marshall Driven by a desire to provide rigorous and innovative learning experiences for the Principal scholars of Commerce, Springfield Public Schools entered into a partnership with the Commerce Empowerment Zone to reimagine teaching and learning at one of the oldest high School Counselors schools in the city. As a result, the New High School of Commerce began during the Tracey Coleman 2017-2018 school year. Personalized College and Career Readiness Pathways in IT, colemant@

Advanced Manufacturing, and Healthcare with embedded Project Based Learning, is springfieldpublicschools.com the focus of this urban, public, college preparatory and career pathways school for Last names: Goo – Qui scholars in grades nine through twelve. Sanyalee DeJesus-Marrero COMMUNITY dejesuss@

Springfield is a large, urban city in Western, MA. The population is diverse and springfieldpublicschools.com multicultural. All students qualify for free and reduced lunch. Our school district Last names: R – Ser consists of 32 elementary schools, 14 middle schools, 6 high schools, and 8 alternative learning programs. Tera Drummer drummert@ springfieldpublicschools.com GRADUATION Last names: Tos – Z REQUIREMENTS

Commerce Scholars are required Demographics Andrea Foresi to earn 24.5 credits to graduate Our Learning Community 20-21 foresia@ White Other springfieldpublicschools.com Credits •Content Areas 6% 1% Last names: A – Gon

African •College & Career American 5 Shandyce Willis Pathway Electives 19% williss@

•English springfieldpublicschools.com 4 •Math Last names: Sha - Tor

•Science Higher Education 3 •History Partnerships CEEB CODE: 222-053 Commerce scholars enroll •World Language Latinx in the following colleges to 2 74% •Physical Edcuation earn college credits while in high school at no cost: •Visual & 1 Latinx African American White Other Perfroming Arts Springfield Technical Community College

0.5 •Health/Wellness Westfield State University CEEB CODE: 222-053 Worcester State University CURRICULUM • Total possible credits per academic year: 8 • Length of instructional block: 77 – 79 minutes • Juniors & Seniors participate in Career Pathway Internships

HONORS COURSES Algebra I & II English 9, 10, 11, 12 US History I Anatomy & Physiology Geometry US History II Chemistry Spanish II

DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES • English 101 • American National • Principles of Sociology • US History Government • Nutrition • Intro to the Puerto Rican • Medical Terminology • Computer Basics Experience • Intro to Public Speaking • Intro to Comparative • Music Appreciation • World Music Ethnic Studies • Art Survey: Renoir to • First Year Experience • Community Leadership Present and Social Change

COLLEGE AND CAREER PATHWAYS

Scholars who attend Commerce have the opportunity to choose from three college options, six career workforce certificate programs, and three paid internship pathways across the industries of Healthcare, Information Technology (IT), Advanced Manufacturing. Scholars can accumulate up to 20 free college credits by the time they graduate or earn stackable credentials to begin their career immediately following graduation.

Total number of Total number of Scholars enrolled in a credits earned Class of 2020 college course Post-Secondary Colleges & Universities 158 387 American International College Assumption College Bay Path University Grading and Ranking Brandeis University GPA and class rank are calculated on a scale of 4.0 with weighting for Honors and DE Courses. When compiling a Framingham State University student’s GPA and class rank, .667 of a quality point is added Holyoke Community College for each DE course completed and 0.333 of a quality point is College of Liberal Arts added for each honors course completed. College

Salem State University College & University Acceptance Rates Springfield Technical Community School 4 Year 2 Year Total College Year University of Hartford 2017- 22% 61% 83% University of Maine 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Massachusetts Boston 2018- 25.1% 58.6% 83.7% 2019 University of Massachusetts 2019- Data pending due to COVID-19 Dartmouth 2020 Western New England University Westfield State University Worcester State University