| Definition of Terms |
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| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Suffolk County, MA |
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| Total Students |
1244 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
52% /
48% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
93 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 392 students | | Grade 10 - 303 students | | Grade 11 - 288 students | | Grade 12 - 261 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:13 |
1:14 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
n/a |
n/a |
| % Asian |
17% |
3% |
| % Hispanic |
26% |
11% |
| % Black |
50% |
11% |
| % White |
7% |
73% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
61% |
20% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
8% |
4% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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| School District Name |
Boston School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
139 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
62,687 students |
2,427 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$1,090,975,000 |
$31,707,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$1,039,801,000 |
$31,191,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$17,404 |
$13,064 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$16,587 |
$12,852 |
| District Graduation Rates |
n/a |
n/a |
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- Charlestown High School is a public school located at 240 Medford Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts with a zip code of 02129. Charlestown High School is the only high school in Charlestown. Charlestown is part of Boston which means the school is part of the Boston Public School System. According to the article, "Focus On Children, the Boston Publics Schools School Report Card," of the students enrolled in 2003-2004, 70.6% were in regular education 7.1% in bilingual education, and 22.2% in the special education. The racial/ethnic decomposition of the student population in the school was: 46.3% Black, 26.4% Hispanic, 19.5% Asian, and 7.6% White.
- Academic organization
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The school consists of grades nine through twelve. The school provides a strong academic program due to the five Small Learning Communities/Pathways. These Communities and Pathways are within an Upper School and Lower School. They were created in 1998 and 1999. The five Small Learning Communities have a college-based curriculum with a signature theme. These signature themes range from Web Design, Law & Justice,and Pre-Engineering, to Business/Technology and MCAS Preparation/Academics. There are ten teachers and one leader in each Small Learning Communities. Each teacher has one specific theme to teach.
- Curriculum
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The Charlestown High School curriculum is strongly based on preparing students for a college education. In addition to the basic curriculum, extensive attention is given to college and exploration. Most of the students participate in the Boston University COACH (College Orientation and Career Help) program. Each Friday two groups of Boston University students come to the school where they divide up by teams and go to the pathways classes, for both juniors and seniors. They work with the students on the entire college application process and portray what college life is like to the students. Since the Boston University (and Harvard at one point) COACH program has been at the Charlestown High School, college application and admission has risen 28%. Because of this rise in college applicants at Charlestown High, over 70 percent of the recent graduates have gone to college.
- Charlestown High School is also known for its vibrant visual arts program. Recognized in a 2005 Fund for Teachers award, student artwork adorns many school and municipal facilities.
- In addition, the school provides extensive support services through college and business partnerships, such Harvard, Bunker Hill, Liberty Mutual and more. Student volunteers from the Harvard College chapter of Peer Health Exchange also visit the high school to teach sexual and health education classes.
- Busing and desegregation
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Charlestown High School received considerable national attention in the 1975-1976 schoolyear when court-mandated forced busing brought African-American children to what was at that time a predominantly white high school in an Irish neighborhood of Boston. Forced busing initially brought great discord and resulted in fights and arrests. There were also enduring images such as the famous photograph of a black and a white student holding hands out thewindow of their school bus (see the NPR article in the external links below).
- Sports success
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The school is famous for its basketball program which is annually ranked as one of the top teams state-wide and nationally. It also has a good reputation of sending basketball players to college. The Charletown High school boys basketball team is in the Boston City League. The Basketball team won the State Championship for four straight years, in 1999-2003. The team won division 2 State Championshion again in 2005. In the 2004-2005 season the team record was 26 and 1. For all these years, the head coach was Jack O'Brien and his assistant coaches were Zach Zegarowski,Steve Cassidy and Hugh Coleman.
- External links
- Charlestown High School Homepage
- BostonPublicSchools.org page
- Charlestown High School Basketball Team
- NPR: The Legacy of School Busing: 4/28/04
- Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
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| About This Zip Code (02129) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
15,195 people |
6,259,314 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
55% |
40% |
| Population Average Age |
34 years old
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36 years old |
| Average Household size |
2.1 persons
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2.5 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$55,700
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$49,959 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
4.2 rooms |
5.4 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
70 years old |
55 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
41% / 59% |
58% / 42% |
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