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Community Charter School of Cambridge (CCSC) is a state and nationally recognized gap closing charter public school committed to expanding access and opportunity for all students.

Guided by our values of belonging, equity, growth, and achievement, CCSC provides a rigorous academic program for students in grades 6-12 with personalized, targeted support in an environment of unconditional acceptance and belonging where all can grow and achieve. More information about our academic program is available here. 

Fast Facts:

  • CCSC is consistently named a top 100 school in Massachusetts by US News and World Report 
  • CCSC was 1 of 57 schools (out of over 1,700 schools statewide) named a 2024 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education School of Recognition
  • In 2023, CCSC received a 2023 AP Access Award in recognition of our commitment to “equitable access to advanced coursework”
  • In the past five graduating classes, 5 CCSC graduates have been awarded prestigious, full-tuition Posse Foundation Leadership Scholarships and 2 CCSC graduates have been named Fidelity Scholars
  • Title I school, 94% students of color, 22% students with disabilities

3 Essentials All Applicants Need to Know About CCSC

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Restorative Justice, Transformative Justice, and Circles

CCSC strives to support all community members to belong, grow, and achieve by cultivating relationships and repairing individual and collective harm. The work we do is anchored in our Restorative, Transformative, and Circle practices. 

Our team works collaboratively to improve the whole school climate and culture. The team learns, unlearns, co-creates, disrupts, and supports the CCSC community with meeting the school’s mission for cultivating, implementing, and sustaining an equitable, anti-racist, culturally responsive, and trauma informed school.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

CCSC is committed to being an actively anti-racist school and to dismantling systems of oppression, bias, and white supremacy culture wherever they exist. Professional development is team-based and includes an extensive focus on equity. We work to ensure that our actions, policies, practices, and systems consistently elevate the voices of students and families as active participants in building a school where they are celebrated and loved.

Our Hiring Process

Text outlining hiring process: step one - application (submit your resume and cover letter to the hiring team for consideration), step two - interview (if selected to proceed, candidates will be asked to complete a live video interview with a member of the hiring team), step three - day at CCSC (strong candidates will be invited to the school for a half-day experience. For teachers this will include teaching a sample lesson, classroom observations, and conversations with the hiring team), and step four - meet & greet with families (candidates who progress to this stage will meet with CCSC students and families for an opportunity to build connections and learn more about the CCSC community)

Openings for the 2025-26 School Year

Community Charter School of Cambridge is committed to maintaining a work and educational environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. In accordance with both state and federal laws, Community Charter School of Cambridge does not discriminate in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment of its services, programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, or prior academic achievement. Community Charter School of Cambridge, in accordance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, does not discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX, including in admission and employment. Individuals may report concerns or questions to the Title IX Coordinator.