Prospect Hill Academy Charter School Accepting Applications for 2017-2018 School Year

Prospect Hill Academy Charter School (PHA), a K-12 college preparatory public charter school located in Cambridge and Somerville, is accepting applications for grades K through 9. The application deadline is February 28, 2017, and the lottery will take place on March 8, 2017.

About Prospect Hill Academy
Founded in 1996, PHA is one of the oldest and largest tuition-free public charter schools in Massachusetts. Located on four age-appropriately designed campuses in Somerville and Cambridge, the school serves nearly 1,200 students in grades K to 12 from diverse racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.

With a mission to prepare each student for success in college, inspire a lifelong love of learning, and foster responsible citizenship, PHA is unapologetically a college preparatory school. From Kindergarten on, we focus on teaching our students the academic knowledge and skills and the social and emotional competencies required to succeed in college and beyond. The result: over 95% of PHA graduates enroll in college, many being first in their families to do so.

Recent Awards
The National Center for Women & Information Technology recently honored four PHA students and one teacher, and the PHA Zero Robotics team just won admittance to the worldwide Alliance Competition whose winners will design code for a robotic sphere in the International Space Station. PHA has consistently placed in the top 4% of all U.S. high schools per U.S. News & World Report; Boston Magazine this year placed PHA among the top ten charter schools in Massachusetts; and PHA's Director of College Counseling won the New England Association for College Admission Counseling’s Professional of the Year Award.

Admissions
Admission to PHA is lottery-based, tuition-free, and open to all residents of Massachusetts with preference given to Cambridge and Somerville residents. PHA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or in a foreign language, or prior academic achievement.

For more information about the Admissions process and to apply online, please visit http://www.phacs.org/apps/pages/admissions.