Thank you for considering Boston Collegiate Charter School for your child’s education! Boston Collegiate is a tuition-free, public school for students in grade 5 through 12 with a mission that is simple yet ambitious: to prepare each student for college. Students are admitted each year by random public lottery.

APPLICATION

Our application for the 2025-2026 is now open and can be accessed through SchoolMint.

Any student who will be entering grades 5 through 10 during the 2025-2026 school year and who resides in Massachusetts may apply to Boston Collegiate. We encourage all eligible students to submit an application to our lottery, including students who are protected under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, which ensures homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free and appropriate public education, including a public preschool education, as provided to other children and youths. Boston Collegiate will admit any homeless student who enrolls through the same processes as other students as descripted in our Enrollment Policy, even if they do not have documents typically required for enrollment.

Per Massachusetts law, priority is given to students who fall under two categories: (1) siblings of a current Boston Collegiate student and (2) City of Boston residents.

To learn more about our current student enrollment policy, please click here. We hope to have the opportunity to work with your family to ensure success in your child’s education!

If you have questions or would like additional information, please reach out to familyengagement@bostoncollegiate.org.

PROSPECTIVE FAMILY OPEN HOUSE

We’d love the opportunity to meet you in person to share more about our school and to give you an in-person tour. Please join us on any of the dates below:

Lower School – Grade 5-6

  • Tuesday, December 3: Lower School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM
  • Wednesday, January 8: Lower School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM
  • Thursday, February: 6: Lower School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM

Upper School – Grades 7-12

  • Monday, November 25: Upper School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM
  • Tuesday, December 17: Upper School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM
  • Wednesday, January 22: Upper School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM
  • Thursday, February: 13: Upper School, 8:30, 11:30, 5:00 PM

CHARTER SCHOOL SHOWCASE

This year, the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association (MCPSA) is hosting two showcases for families of Boston to learn more about charter schools in the city. Please come say hi to us!

  • Saturday, November 2, 10:00-2:00 p.m., Boston Preparatory Charter Public School, 885 River Street, Boston
  • Saturday, January 25, 10:00-2:00 p.m., Boston Collegiate Charter School, 11 Mayhew Street, Dorchester

LOTTERY

Our 2024 lottery will be held on Wednesday, March 6, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. at our Lower School campus. It will be livestreamed on Boston Collegiate’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

Waitlists drop each year on February 15th. In order to be included in our lottery for the upcoming school year, a new application will need to be completed by the deadline of Thursday, February 28, 2025.

If you have questions or would like additional information, please reach out to familyengagement@bostoncollegiate.org.

FAQs

Absolutely not! The only criteria required for students to apply are to be residents of Massachusetts and to be entering grades 5-10.

If you applied, you would have a SchoolMint account. Try to login with your email there to find records of your applications. If you are not able to log in, or have trouble, feel free to reach out to us at any time to confirm your student’s application. We can be reached at familyengagement@bostoncollegiate.org. Furthermore, our team goes through several rounds of data cleaning to ensure each unique applicant is given the equal and random opportunity to attend our school. When in doubt, submit your application again and we will follow up with you if a duplicate exists.

 

Each year, our waitlist expires on February 15th for the current year.  We encourage all prospective students to reapply in October, as our waitlists do not rollover per Massachusetts state regulation.