The mission of the Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School is to enable its students to achieve academic, social and career success, and to help all students earn admission to college. Students are grouped together without regard to age or grade completed at their previous school. Faculty and students at the high school benefit from college-level resources that come from being housed in a middle college classrooms, computer labs, science labs, library and cafeteria. The school uses the College Board Computerized Placement Test as an entry and exit assessment. Students are also tested using PSAT and SAT exams.
Students have a say in the school.
For instance, a central ethical value, such as truthfulness, was selected by students for each month of the school year. Of the seventeen 1996 graduates, sixteen are going on to college. The Lowell public schools, as part of a desegregation plan, had contracted with Middlesex Community College every year since 1989 to provide an alternative high school program consisting of remedial and academic instruction for students who had dropped out of Lowell High School. Becoming a charter school has meant more flexibility to do our jobs well.