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Recipient of the New Leaders for New Schools Silver-gain
EPIC (Effective Practice Incentive Community) Award in
2008, 2009, and 2010. The EPIC initiative identifies and
rewards charter schools that are making significant
academic achievement gains with high need populations.
As an EPIC award recipient, the school will have
additional opportunities to disseminate best practices
on a national basis.
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One of five charter public schools profiled in the
Harvard University publication titled Inside Urban
Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in
Five High-Performing Schools (Harvard Education
Press, 2009). The chapter devoted to Community Day
Charter (Intimacy in a Data-Driven School) highlights
the extraordinary level of collaboration between and
among teachers, parents, and school leaders to ensure
that every student at CDCPS receives the services and
supports necessary to be successful in school.
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Selected for participation in Keeping the Promise,
a three-year effort of the Massachusetts Charter
Public School Association to identify and disseminate
the best practices of public charter schools that
successfully educate children in communities of high
need.
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Selected as the recipient of the first annual
Excellence in Education Award given by the National
Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) at San
Diego State University (2006). This award recognizes
very high-achieving urban schools in order to identify,
study, and promote the best practices that have
contributed to their success.
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Recognized as a Title I Distinguished School by
the Title I Distinguished School National Recognition
Program for demonstrated student gains through the
achievement of adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals.
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Designated a Massachusetts Compass School, the
first charter school in the history of the program to be
so honored for significantly improved MCAS results in
both Reading/English Language Arts and Math. The Compass
Schools Program was developed as a way for the state to
recognize and celebrate individual school improvement
and to encourage the sharing of good ideas and effective
practices among educators statewide.
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Nominated for the No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon
Schools Award Program established by the U.S.
Department of Education to reward successful schools
that make significant progress in closing the
achievement gap or whose students achieve at the highest
levels.
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CDCPS became the first charter school renewed by the
Massachusetts Board of Education for a second five-year
term (2005-2010). The independent consultants hired by
the Board to evaluate the school noted that
“standards-based curriculum is the centerpiece of the
CDCPS academic program and provides the roadmap for
day-to-day instruction. Teachers integrate extensive
data analysis of students’ capabilities with the
curriculum resources to create a rich and effective
instructional program.” (SchoolWorks Renewal
Inspection Report)
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Students have shown strong performance on MCAS and high
rates of acceptance by high schools that base admission
on academic achievement.
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Graduates have attended nationally renowned schools,
including Phillips Academy Andover, Phillips Exeter
Academy, Pingree School, The Governor’s Academy, and
Groton School.
