Boston Collegiate Charter School

Whether they're interested in 🔬🧪🧬 science or 💉🥼🏥 healthcare, 11th grade internships help students hone in on the specific kind of career they're interested in within a larger field. Students start by saying "I want to go into medicine" and leave their internship having stood in ORs, helped take vitals, processed genetic samples, and run CAT scans for incoming emergency patients.

As one student said, "this internship strengthened my interest in healthcare and helped me figure out what specific modality I wanted to do." Thank you to our medical host sites for helping students enter their senior year with hands-on experience and a clear vision for their futures!
Mass General Brigham
Boston Medical Center
Boston Ability Center

💼 Every year, Boston Collegiate 11th graders spend two weeks in a full-time internship with a local business related to their career of interest. These experiences are life-changing, often informing a student's college, major, and career selections. This is especially relevant in careers like construction, trades, and labor, offering students direct insight into and connections within these increasingly competitive fields!

Placing and hosting all of our 11th grade students is no small feat! We are so grateful to all our hosts this year, including those in construction, trades, and labor:
Cruz Electrics
Diamond Touch Masonry
Related Beal
Gale Associates, Inc.
Hurst Landscaping
John Moriarty & Associates
Malcolm contracting services LLC
Prieto Design Group LLC
RW Sullivan Engineering
Terva Corporation
Utile Architecture and Planning

🧼 Life's better with bubbles 🫧

Our lower school took full advantage of the beautiful spring weather in the Boston Common with the Ron Burton Training Village team!

Wednesday was pure ✨ joy ✨ celebrating our Class of 2026! 🎓 This class has truly embraced, embodied, and modeled Boston Collegiate's Core Values and led our school with grace, drive, and collaboration this year. We will miss them next year, but they are off on amazing adventures, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to a deep-sea welding program, and we can't wait to watch them soar!

Congratulations, scholars! Thank you for showing us all how to this year 💕

And, special shout-out to our 5th graders for visiting our Upper School to cheer on our seniors during the senior sendoff!

As the school year winds down, we want to give a big round of applause to this year's Restoriative Justcie Leaders! 👏🏻

Student Restorative Justice Leaders are trained to help carry out restorative justice practices on the ground at Boston Collegiate. Leaders shape school culture, mediate difficult conversations between students and staff, and provide a student perspective in adult spaces, like Staff Orientation and grade-level meetings. They have improved our student body's understanding of restorative justice by modeling healthy conflict resolution and leadership, and staff have expressed feeling more supported when they are around.

We celebrated this year's Middle and High School RJ Leaders with a lovely breakfast where everyone reflected on the year and honored our graduating seniors. 💕

In honor of the crossing the stage later this week, we're highlighting alumna Lizzy Smith, Class of 2006, who is celebrating 20 years since she herself earned her Boston Collegiate degree! 🎓

After Boston Collegiate, Lizzy headed to UMass Amherst, where she majored in Marketing, minored in Sociology, played intramural sports, and built a lifelong circle of friends.

Today, Lizzy is a powerhouse in the tech world, working as an Account Director at Presidio, where she manages technology sales in the Professional Services space for regulated gaming clients. 💻✨ She also serves on the Boston Collegiate Board of Trustees, which she says, "has been one of the most fulfilling and meaningful commitments I’ve taken on over the past few years."

Lizzy's advice to Boston Collegiate grads as they take on their next steps: “There are few schools with teachers and staff who care so deeply about their students and who work so intentionally to pave a path to success—often beyond what you may realize you’re capable of achieving. When you reach that point, I hope you’ll do one thing: give back to the school and community when you can... every effort makes a difference.”

Thank you, Lizzy, for your incredible leadership and dedication to the Boston Collegiate community! 💙

Recently, through Boston Collegiate's Fund for Teaching Excellence, Ms. Townsend's class hosted Sashi James (Justice As Healing) in English 10 to speak with students! 🎤

Sashi is an organizer who supports women and girls who are incarcerated. Her visit was part of the class' Project-Based Learning unit where they researched the prison system, politics, and corporations. It was enlightening to hear about Sashi's investment in her community and the experiences that have informed her values.

Thank you, Sashi, for sharing your story with our students, and to Ms. Townsend for organizing such an impactful visit!

🔬🧫 Scientists at work! Ms. Han's AP Biology class completed a frog dissection to close out their year and get some hands-on experience alongside their class content!

Who else remembers doing dissections in bio class?! 🐸

Earlier this month, our community gathered for our annual celebration🎊

With such a diverse student and staff body at Boston Collegiate, these celebrations offer students a chance to share their culture, food, drinks, and traditions with friends and family. From boba tea to oragami, it was an unforgettable evening!

Kudos to the staff and students who made this amazing evening a reality, and to our vendors Just Thai Kitchen - Boston and , and our performers MIT Mirchi and Wah May Lion Dance Team! 🦁

Meet Jake Bombard, Boston Collegiate Class of 2005! 🎓

Jake’s journey since graduating has been nothing short of inspiring. After his time at Boston Collegiate, he headed to William & Mary in Virginia, where he majored in English Literature and stayed heavily involved in the Student Government Association.

Jake spent years making an impact in local government and politics, including serving as Chief of Staff in the Massachusetts State Senate, before discovering his passion for nonprofit work. In his free time, Jake prioritizes giving back to the community as a certified CPR/AED Instructor, volunteering with the city's Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), volunteering with Friends of Boston's Homeless, and serving on Boston Collegiate's Board of Trustees!

When asked about a Boston Collegiate teacher who made an impact: "Ms. Veeder all the way! Ms. Veeder did everything she could to make sure we all found a love for reading. She would give me individualized recommendations for books... She also gave some of us all the permission we needed to be absolute nerds. I still have the mug I got from when she took us to the New England Scrabble Championships. Thanks, Ms. Veeder!" 🍎

Thank YOU, Jake, for your incredible leadership and dedication to service in Boston and beyond!