School districts boston

As a family in Boston, you have over school options available to you within the City of Boston alone. This Resource Guide explains each type of school available to your family, including options outside of the City of Boston.

You can apply to as many different types of schools as you like, but there is no single way to apply to every school; each type of school — and even some individual schools within each type — has different processes. There are more than BPS schools in Boston. BPS schools serve students in grades K0 to K2 ages 3 to 5 years old through grade 12 and beyond. There are many types of schools and programs within BPS, including pilot and exam schools, Horace Mann "in-district" charter schools, and programs such as Advanced Work Class and Education for All.

These schools are free and open to the public. Interested students can apply to any or all 16 charter schools at the same time via the Boston Public Charter School application. Placement into these charter schools is determined by lottery at each school. Also known as "parochial schools," Boston has a number of private religious-affiliated schools, including a large number of Catholic schools. Some Catholic schools are free or offer subsidized, income-dependent tuition. Each individual private school has its own separate admissions process and requires its own separate application.

There is no common application for private schools in Boston. Visit our private schools Resource Guide to learn more.

Click here to view our School Profiles for private religious-affiliated schools with our School Finder Tool. In addition to the types of schools listed above, there are several school options available to your family both within and beyond the city limits of Boston. METCO is a free program where Boston students travel to public schools across more than 30 partnering cities and towns outside of the city of Boston. These programs may be at standalone schools or campuses, or may be included as a separate educational track at existing public school districts within Massachusetts.

Select "Ch. In addition to the 16 Commonwealth charter schools within the city of Boston, Boston residents are welcome to enter the lottery for any of the more than 80 Commonwealth charter schools across the state. Commonwealth charter schools outside of the Boston Public Charter Schools each have their own enrollment applications and deadlines.

There is often preference based on neighborhood, but all Commonwealth charter schools have a lottery for which anyone can sign up. Visit the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website for a list of all Massachusetts Commonwealth charter public schools. Some school districts allow children outside their boundaries to attend their schools through the inter-district school choice program. Parents are required to apply to each school district separately, and transfers are not guaranteed.

Helen Y. Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public District. Holyoke Community Charter District. Innovation Academy Charter District. King Philip. Lawrence Family Development Charter District. Libertas Academy Charter School District. Lowell Community Charter Public District.

Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter District. Ma Academy for Math and Science. Manchester Essex Regional. Map Academy Charter School District. Marblehead Community Charter Public District.

Martha's Vineyard. Martha's Vineyard Charter District. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School of Excellence Distric. Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical. Mohawk Trail. Monomoy Regional School District. Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical. Mount Greylock. Mystic Valley Regional Charter District. Nashoba Valley Regional Vocational Technical. Neighborhood House Charter District. New Bedford. New Salem-Wendell. Norfolk County Agricultural.

North Adams. North Andover. North Attleborough. North Brookfield. North Middlesex. North Reading. Northampton-Smith Vocational Agricultural. Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical. Northern Berkshire Regional Vocational Technical. Oak Bluffs. Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical. Old Rochester. Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical. Phoenix Charter Academy District. Pioneer Charter School of Science District. Pioneer Valley. Prospect Hill Academy Charter District. Quaboag Regional.

Ralph C Mahar. Rising Tide Charter Public District. River Valley Charter District. Roxbury Preparatory Charter District. Sabis International Charter District. Salem Academy Charter District. Seven Hills Charter Public District. Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical. Silver Lake.

Somerset Berkley Regional School District. South Hadley. South Middlesex Regional Vocational Technical.