The mission of the Chelmsford Public Charter School is to provide students with a challenging interdisciplinary education that allows them to achieve their maximum potential through a participatory, relevant, and applied learning process. The school's academic, organizational and instructional practices are aimed at assuring that all students achieve these objectives to the highest level possible. The staff has created academic standards based on the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and The New Standards, which specify what all students need to know and be able to do in the areas of mathematics, language arts, social studies, science, Spanish and health. The use of theoretical constructs called Systems Thinking and System Dynamics gives students a mental framework for processing knowledge, synthesizing learning and seeing beyond the facts to understand broader principles.
All students are in multi-age classes and remain with the same teacher for two years.
Parents receive frequent and detailed reports through weekly feedback forms, monthly parent meetings, and trimester report cards. The school uses the latest technology to support teaching and learning. Each classroom has a minimum of four internally networked computers with direct Internet access and a voice mail system with a Homework Hotline. Beacon Education management, a for-profit educational management company, manages the school. The school was founded by the Chelmsford Alliance for Education, a coalition of community members, parents and businesses that, since 1992, has been working to improve public education in Chelmsford.