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ANNUAL REPORT 2014-15 MATCH COMMUNITY DAY MATCH NEXT MATCH MIDDLE SCHOOL MATCH HIGH SCHOOL (PK-4) (5) (6-8) (9-12) 86 Wachusett Street 215 Forest Hills Street 215 Forest Hills Street 1001 Commonwealth Avenue Jamaica Plain MA 02130 Jamaica Plain MA 02130 Jamaica Plain MA 02130 Boston MA 02215 (617) 983-0300 (857) 284-1531 (857) 203-9668 (617) 232-0300 Fax: (617) 983-0332 Fax: (857) 203-9666 Fax: (857) 203-9666 Fax: (617) 232-2838 Principal: Kat Needham Principal: Ray Schleck Principal: Megan Reed Co-Principal: Hannah Larkin katharine.needham@ ray.schleck@ megan.reed@ hannah.larkin@ matcheducation.org matcheducation.org matcheducation.org matcheducation.org Stig Leschly, Chief Executive Officer (617) 232-0300 [email protected] www.matchschool.org TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO OUR SCHOOL 3 INTRODUCTORY LETTER 4 FAITHFULNESS TO CHARTER 5 Mission and Key Design Elements 5 Amendments to the Charter 5 Dissemination Efforts 5 ACADEMIC PROGRAM SUCCESS 5 Student Performance 5 MCAS Data, 2014 School Report Card on DESE Website 5 Other Assessments 5 Program Delivery 6 ORGANIZATIONAL VIABILITY 6 Organizational Structure of the School 6 Organizational Chart, 2014-15 6 Teacher Evaluation 6 Budget and Finance 7 Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Assets for the 12 Months Ended June 30, 2015 7 Statement of Net Assets, June 30, 2015 8 Approved School Budget, FY16 9 Fiscal 2016 Capital Plan 10 APPENDIX A, ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN EVIDENCE 2014-15 11 Faithfulness to Charter 11 Academic Program Success 12 Organizational Viability 13 APPENDIX B, RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION PLANS 13 Recruitment Plan 2015-16 13 Retention Plan 2015-16 16 APPENDIX C, SCHOOL AND STUDENT DATA 17 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education School Profile 17 Student Demographic and Subgroup Information 18 Administrative Roster for the 2014-15 School Year 18 Teacher and Staff Attrition for the 2014-15 School Year 19 Board Members for the 2014-15 School Year 19 ADDITIONAL REQUIRED INFORMATION 20 Key Leadership Changes 20 Facilities 20 Enrollment 20 Conditions 20 Complaints 20 ATTACHMENTS 21 Historical Attrition 21 Historical Advanced Placement Scores 22 Historical College Course GPAs 24 Historical SAT Scores 25 INTRODUCTION TO OUR SCHOOL MATCH CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL Type of Charter Commonwealth Location Boston Districts in Region Regional or Non-Regional? Non-Regional N/A (if applicable) Year(s) in which the Year Opened 2000 Charter was Renewed 2005, 2010, 2015 (if applicable) Maximum Enrollment 1,250 Current Enrollment 897 Chartered Grade Span PK-12 Current Grade Span PK-12 # of Instructional Days during the 2014-2015 180 Students on Waitlist 1,817 school year Match Community Day: 7:30 am – 4:15 pm Middle School: School Hours Age of School 15 years 7:40 am – 4:10 pm High School: 8:25 am – 4 pm Mission Statement The Mission of the Match Charter Public School is to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond, in particular, those who would be the first in their families to earn a college degree. We intend this school to serve large numbers of English Language Learners. INTRODUCTORY LETTER To the Reader of our Annual Report: Thank you for taking the time to read our Annual Report. Through this report, we aim to highlight our successes as well as areas where we continue to seek improvement. The goal of this report is to provide clear and candid information about our charter public school. 2013-14 was an extraordinary year for us. We were operating two separate charter schools, Match Charter and Match Community Day Charter, both of which saw great success that year reflected in low attrition rates and strong academic performance. As of July 1, 2014, our two charters were consolidated. Building on the successes of the previous year, 2014-15 was the first year we operated as a single charter school serving grades PK-12. Student attrition rates continue to decrease as more students chose to stay at Match rather than transfer to Boston schools. In June 2015 we graduated the first cohort of students to have started with us in 6th grade (all prior graduating cohorts had started with us in 9th grade). A number of these graduates were admitted to top tier colleges, including Harvard, Columbia, Wellesley, Notre Dame and Swarthmore. Our high school juniors and seniors, 81% of which took at least one AP class this year, performed well on AP exams: 54% of AP exams administered to our students resulted in a passing score of 3 or higher. This is up from 51% last year. For the second consecutive year, 95% of our seniors who took AP Calculus AB passed the exam, and in AP Literature the percentage of students passing the exam nearly doubled since last year. In 2015-16, we will work to continue to build on the progress we have made. We will focus on improving student academic performance, including success on AP exams. With a continued investment in relationships between school and home, we seek to keep attrition rates low. This will be the first year that students from our elementary school move up to our middle school, and we will be working to build a program for 5th through 8th grade that reflects the needs of students who have completed our elementary program. While we have seen promising growth in recent years, there are still a number of areas where we have room for improvement. We are working on fully articulating the curriculum for every Match class so that it is stable year-to-year. We would like to do more to develop leaders internally so that we have strong succession plans for our leadership positions. We also want to connect all of our students with access to high quality summer camps and enrichment programs. Sincerely, Stig Leschly Chief Executive Officer Annual Report 2014-15 4 Match Charter Public School FAITHFULNESS TO CHARTER Mission and Key Design Elements The mission of Match Charter Public School is to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond, in particular, those who would be the first in their families to earn a college degree. We intend this school to serve large numbers of English Language Learners. We have four Key Design Elements that guide our work toward realizing this mission: Rigorous college preparatory curriculum Intense family communication and involvement Personalized academic support through Match Corps Serve large numbers of English Language Learners In 2014-15, we continued our work of implementing these Key Design Elements to attain our mission. We offered a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum that includes Advanced Placement classes and courses at Boston University. Our teachers are committed to excellence, and continually strive to share practices, collaborate and improve their instruction. In addition to a full academic schedule, all students—regardless of age or skill level—have access to Match Corps tutors. Match Corps members are recent college graduates recruited from the nation’s best universities who make a commitment to do one year of service at our school. Parents of Match students were contacted frequently by Match staff throughout the school year. At Match, we believe that the school staff and faculty are the school teachers, while the parents are the home teachers. Through several parent nights, workshops and more, we work with our parents to ensure that the learning for our scholars doesn't stop when the bell rings at the end of the day. In 2014-15, 34.7% of Match students were classified as English Language Learners, which was the 7th highest rate of all districts in Massachusetts. Amendments to the Charter Approved Date Amendment Requested by BESE? 3/12/15 Add 46 additional seats to 5th grade for the 15-16 school year yes Dissemination Efforts Our doors are always open to visitors looking to learn more about our programs. Throughout the 2014-15 school year we welcomed 247 visitors through our doors from organizations and schools, including 60 visitors hosted for an event with author and former chancellor of the New York City Schools, a group of students and their professor from Kansas State and a group of teachers from the Netherlands, among many others. ACADEMIC PROGRAM SUCCESS Student Performance MCAS Data, 2014 School Report Card on DESE Website http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/reportcard/rc.aspx?linkid=37&orgcode=04690505&fycode=2014&orgtypecode=6 & Other Assessments This year, students in grades 2-8 took the first two ANET (Achievement Network) Interim Assessments. The ANET interim assessments are designed to assess standards tested on the MCAS, and the data provided allows schools to compare their results to other schools in the network. In 2014-15, our students took the PARCC exam instead of the MCAS, and administrators decided that the ANET would no longer be the right assessment tool for our school. Additionally, other high performing schools were no longer using ANET, which meant we no longer had a point of comparison. In 2015-16, we will Annual Report 2014-15 5 Match Charter Public School be moving more towards internally developed assessment tools to assess our students’ progress meeting PARCC standards. In 2014-15, our students took many additional assessments. See Appendix A for details about additional assessments that our high school students took, including the PSATs, SATs and AP exams. Program Delivery Our mission is to prepare students for college, and that mission guides all programmatic decisions. In 2014-15, we became one of the 54% of Massachusetts districts who administered the PARCC tests to students in grades 3-8. This year was another large step forward in our transition to the common core standards. We made a number of changes to texts to reflect the rigor of the common core.