Match Education History

Year Title  Description

2000

Match High School (MHS) opens

MHS opens in a rented Hebrew School in Boston. Its initial charter is for 180 students grades 9-12.
2001 MIT Partnership begins MHS begins partnership with MIT. Subsidized by federal work-study wages, MIT students tutor MHS students. Partnership expands quickly to other local universities.
2003 Boston University Partnership begins MHS begins partnership with Boston University. MHS seniors must pass 2 Boston University courses to graduate.
2004 Match Corps Tutoring Program begins The Match Corps program begins. All students receive at least two hours of tutoring every day. Program recruits extensively and selectively from top colleges nationally.
2004

AP Curriculum is expanded

 MHS requires all students to take at least 3 AP classes as a graduation requirement. AP Course offerings include Calculus, Biology, Literature, History, and English.
2006 MHS honored by USDOE MHS is cited by the US Department of Education (USDOE) as one of the nation's 8 best charter high schools.
2008-12 MHS receives Epic Award New Leaders for New Schools and the U.S. Department of Education recognize MHS and MMS for value-added proficiency gains by its students.
2008-09 MHS is recognized as one of America's best high schools Newsweek ranks MHS #25 in its list of 1,400 high schools in the nation. US News and World Report ranks MHS #99 in its list of 18,000 high schools in the nation. 
2008 Match Middle School (MMS) opens MMS opens in a rented facility in Jamaica Plain.
2008 Match Teacher Residency (MTR) starts The MTR program launches. Match Education begins training teachers to become unusually effective rookie teachers.
2009

MTR graduates its first class

 MTR graduates its first class of teachers. Graduates take jobs in high-performing charter schools, including Achievement First, Pritzker College Prep, Edward Brooke, KIPP, Boston Collegiate, and Phoenix Charter Academy.
2011 Match Export is launched by The Match School Foundation Match Export, a dissemination unit, is launched by the Match School Foundation to work nationally with education organizations that are interested in replicating our school-level practices and in purchasing teacher training services.
2011 Match Community Day (MCD) School is approved The Massachusetts Board of Education approves MCD charter application and clears the school to focus on English Language Learner students and to serve 700 students grades K-12.
2011 Match Education begins college coaching A full-time college coach to support MHS alumni enter and persist in college.
2011 MCD opens MCD opens in Jamaica Plain with 100 elementary students, 85% of whom speak a language other than English at home.
2012 MA Board of Higher Education (MABHE) approves Sposato Graduate School of Education (SGSE) MABHE approves the formation of SGSE, an independent and fully sanctioned graduate school that will begin granting Master's in Effective Teaching beginning in 2012-13.
2012 NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) names Match Education Entrepreneurial Organization of the Year NSVF honors Match Education's record of student outcomes, its promising work on teacher training, and its commitment to dissemination of its tutoring program and other innovations.
2012 Lawrence Public Schools (LPS) contracts the Match School Foundation As part of a state-led effort to fix the failing district, the Foundation is contracted to lead the deployment of 50 full-time math fellows in two underperforming high schools.