The 2008-2009 Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School Annual Report is now available. Click here to download it.

LMACS is working to ensure that students and faculty take appropriate precautions during the flu season. Read more about the Swine Flu on our Swine Flu Parent Fact Sheet

January 4: Classes Resume
January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday (No school)
January 22: Deadline for Spring Applications
January 25: Parent/DA & PAC Meetings

February 1-2: MCAS Biology
February 3: Spring Lottery
February 15-19: Winter Break
February 17: New Student Orientation

Lowell students, faculty, parents urge end to cap on charter schools

BOSTON-- Middlesex Academy senior Nydia Ortiz credited her charter school with helping her make it to graduation day.

"Before I went to charter school, I didn't care," Ortiz said at the Statehouse yesterday, 43 days before she'll receive her diploma. "Now I'm here to support my school."

Faculty and parents from both Lowell charter schools, Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School and Lowell Community Charter Public School, joined Ortiz and her 32 senior classmates yesterday, rallying with hundreds of other charter school advocates to raise the state's cap on charter-school funding.

A Challenge to Charter Schools
The February 5, 2009 Boston Globe editorial, "A challenge to charter schools" recognizes LMACS:

Patrick and the Legislature should raise the cap while instructing the Board of Education to call for and entertain only those charter school proposals with a mission to serve struggling students, such as the "second chance" Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School.

Read the editorial.

2009 Ocean Summit
Six Massachusetts high schools were selected to participate in the 2009 Ocean Summit, a Umass Boston/New England Aquarium program. Fortunately, LMACS was among them. Six students spent the day "brainstorming solutions to global climate change and suggesting responses for industry and special interest groups."

Read about the program | View the Photos