ANNUAL REPORT 2015-16 MATCH COMMUNITY DAY MATCH NEXT MATCH MIDDLE SCHOOL MATCH HIGH SCHOOL (PK-4) (5-6) (6-8) (9-12) 100 Poydras Street 215 Forest Hills Street 215 Forest Hills Street 1001 Commonwealth Avenue Hyde Park MA 02136 Jamaica Plain MA 02130 Jamaica Plain MA 02130 Boston MA 02215 (617) 983-0300 (857) 203-9668 (857) 203-9668 (617) 232-0300 Fax: (617) 272-3581 Fax: (857) 203-9666 Fax: (857) 203-9666 Fax: (617) 232-2838 Principal: Kat Needham Principal: Ray Schleck Principal: Ryan Holmes Principal: Hannah Larkin katharine.needham@ ray.schleck@ ryan.holmes@ hannah.larkin@ matchschool.org matchschool.org matchschool.org matchschool.org Stig Leschly, Chief Executive Officer (617) 232-0300 [email protected] www.matchschool.org TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO OUR SCHOOL 3 FAITHFULNESS TO CHARTER 4 Mission and Key Design Elements 4 Amendments to the Charter 4 Dissemination Efforts 4 ACADEMIC PROGRAM SUCCESS 4 Student Performance 4 Program Delivery 5 Social, Emotional and Health Needs 5 ORGANIZATIONAL VIABILITY 5 Organizational Structure of the School 5 Teacher Evaluation 5 Budget and Finance 6 Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Assets for the 12 Months Ended June 30, 2015 6 Statement of Net Assets, June 30, 2015 7 Approved School Budget, FY16 8 Fiscal 2016 Capital Plan 8 APPENDIX A, ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN EVIDENCE 2015-16 9 Faithfulness to Charter 9 Academic Program Success 10 Organizational Viability 11 APPENDIX B, RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION PLANS 12 Recruitment Plan 2016-17 12 Retention Plan 2016-17 14 APPENDIX C, SCHOOL AND STUDENT DATA 15 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education School Profile 15 Student Demographic and Subgroup Information 16 Administrative Roster for the 2015-16 School Year 16 Teacher and Staff Attrition for the 2015-16 School Year 17 Board Members for the 2015-16 School Year 18 ADDITIONAL REQUIRED INFORMATION 18 Key Leadership Changes 18 Facilities 18 Enrollment 19 Conditions 19 Complaints 19 ATTACHMENTS 19 Attrition 19 Advanced Placement Scores 20 College Course GPAs 23 SAT Scores 24 INTRODUCTION TO OUR SCHOOL MATCH CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL Type of Charter Commonwealth Location of School Boston Regional or Non- Chartered Districts in Non-Regional N/A Regional? Region Year(s) in which the Year Opened 2000 Charter was 2005, 2010, 2015 Renewed Maximum Enrollment 1,250 Current Enrollment 1,027 Chartered Grade Span PK-12 Current Grade Span PK-12 # of Instructional Days during the 2015-2016 180 Students on Waitlist 1,949 school year Elementary: 7:40 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. School Hours Middle: 7:30 a.m. – 4:20 p.m. Age of School 16 years High: 8:25 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 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. Thank you for taking the time to read our 2015-16 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. Beginning in July 2014, Match and Match Community Day were consolidated to become a single charter school serving grades PK-12. In 2015-16, for the first time, students from our elementary school moved up to our middle school and we continue our work to build a program for 5th through 8th grade that reflects the needs of students who have completed our elementary program. With a continued investment in relationships between school and home, student attrition has remained below 7% for three consecutive years. June 2016 marked the graduation of the second cohort of students to have started with us in 6th grade, and among them are graduates who will attend highly selective colleges including Dartmouth College, Vassar College and Bucknell University. Our high school juniors and seniors performed well on AP exams: 40% of AP exams taken by our students received a passing score of 3 or higher, and for the third consecutive year, 95% of seniors who took AP Calculus AB passed the exam. While we have seen promising growth in recent years, there are still a number of areas where we have room for improvement. We will continue to focus on fostering excellent teaching, creating a fully articulated PK-12 curriculum, developing strong leaders internally and connecting students with high quality summer camps and enrichment programs. In addition, we aim to strategically use data to drive academic interventions and to evolve our school culture to best support struggling students. Sincerely, Stig Leschly Chief Executive Officer Annual Report 2015-16 3 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 2015-16, 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 2015-16, 33% of Match students were classified as English Language Learners, which was the 8th highest rate of all districts in Massachusetts. Amendments to the Charter Approved Date Amendment Requested by BESE? 6/2/16 Adjustment to Accountability Plan items pertaining to SAT and PSAT scores, to pending reflect changes in the structure and scoring of those tests Dissemination Efforts Our doors are always open to visitors looking to learn more about our programs. Throughout the 2015-16 school year we welcomed 292 visitors through our doors from organizations and schools, including 85 attendees at the opening ceremony of our Poydras Street campus, the Ministers of Education from Liberia, educators from New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Memphis, among many others. ACADEMIC PROGRAM SUCCESS Student Performance MCAS Data, 2015 School Report Card on DESE Website http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/reportcard/rc.aspx?linkid=37&orgcode=04690505&fycode=2015&orgtypecode=6& Other Assessments In 2015-16, we moved towards the use of internally developed assessment tools to assess our students’ progress meeting PARCC standards. We take the lead on developing all summative assessments for ELA and Mathematics, grades 1 through 10. We heavily consult released PARCC assessment items to ensure that the tests are aligned with standards in terms of scope and rigor. In the elementary grades, students take unit assessments in ELA and Mathematics roughly every 6 weeks, which include test items aligned with the standards of the unit, as well as previously covered standards. In the middle and high school grades, students take "interim assessments" at three different points in the year; these assessments are also Annual Report 2015-16 4 Match Charter Public School cumulative, covering recent and previously covered standards. 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. This year was another large step forward in the implementation of our Common Core / PARCC aligned curriculum and assessments. ELA and Math teachers received content-specific weekly coaching and monthly PD to ensure that not only the curriculum was being implemented with fidelity, but also that their pedagogy was reflective of the demands of the Common Core. For instance, we had a school-wide PD focus on teachers driving "sustained independent practice" in their lessons to help students build the intellectual and emotional resilience to persevere with challenging texts and problem sets. Additionally, principals lead data analysis exercises after each unit and interim assessment to ensure that teachers were appropriately spiraling and remediating content. Social, Emotional and Health Needs We have not made any recent changes in our approach to student discipline. ORGANIZATIONAL VIABILITY Organizational Structure of the School In 2015-16, our organizational structure remained the same, with a few minor adjustments. Megan McDonough transitioned out of her role as the Head of School at our high school campus. Jocelyn Goodwin moved into a new role of Assistant Principal at our elementary campus. Hannah Larkin stayed on as Principal at our high school, and former co- Principal Nedra Massenburg moved back into the classroom to teach Mathematics. In April, Tobey Jackson transitioned out of the role of Chief Academic Officer and Orin Gutlerner stepped into that role.