DESE/State/Federal Compliance
Important Announcements
Salem Academy Prior Notice: Integrated Monitoring Review of Salem Academy Charter School during the week of June 9, 2025.
DESE Special Education Site Review 2021 (ENG)
DESE Special Education Site Review 2021 (ESP)
Salem Academy’s DESE Annual Report
Past Annual Reports
Title I – Rights to Know
Each year, every public school and district in Massachusetts receives a report card from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Much like your child’s report card shows progress in specific subjects, a school’s report card highlights how the school is performing across a variety of measures.
You can view Salem Academy Charter School’s 2024 School Report Card here: SACS School Report Card
These report cards include more than just MCAS results—they offer a broader look at school performance, including data on student achievement, teacher qualifications, learning opportunities for students, and more.
We encourage families to use this information to learn more about how our school is doing and to engage in conversations with us about our strengths and areas for growth. These report cards also help community members, education leaders, and policymakers better understand how to support our school and students.
As Salem Academy is a Title I school, you also have the right to request information about the professional qualifications of your child’s teachers, including:
- Whether the teacher meets DESE’s Charter School Teacher Qualifications
- The college degree and major of the teacher
- Whether your child is supported by paraprofessionals and, if so, their qualifications
DESE Report Card
Source, Massachusetts DESE (profiles.doe.mass.edu/reportcard)
Title IX
SACS Title IX Policy 2024-2025
Home/Hospital Policy & Form
Designated Person Statement 6-18 AHERA
Annual Asbestos Notification 6-2018
Salem Academy’s School Profile
Public Record Request
Public records may be requested by contacting Salem Academy’s Managing Director of Operations & HR or Executive Director.
Primary Records Access Contact:
Kristine Sgambellone
Managing Director of Operations and HR
[email protected]
978-744-2105;110
Secondary Records Access Contact:
Stephanie Callahan
Executive Director
[email protected]
978-744-2105;112
Procurement
Request for Proposals:
Request for Proposals – Vended Meals Contract for SY 23-24
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
EDUCATIONAL STABILITY PROGRAMMING & SERVICES
Salem Academy Charter School (SACS) is committed to ensuring continued enrollment, attendance, and the opportunity to succeed in school for homeless youth, including but not limited to those youth engaged in the foster care system and unaccompanied youth. Furthermore, SACS is committed to ensuring that students experiencing housing or living transitions due to family member’s military status or connection will be afforded every opportunity to experience a consistent and stable educational experience with the district.
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015, ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has adopted Section 725(2) of this Act regarding the definition of homeless children and youth to include:
…Individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence or have a primary nighttime residence in a supervised, publicly or privately, operated shelter for temporary accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill), an institution providing temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or a public or private place not designated for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings. This definition shall include: children and youth who are
- sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason;
- are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
- are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;
- children and youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
- children and youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings;
- migratory children (as such term is defined in section 1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) who qualify as homeless because they are living in circumstances described above; and
- unaccompanied youth – a youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. See also: http://www.doe.mass.edu/mv/haa/
For additional information or to identify a student as eligible for support and intervention consistent with the McKinney-Vento Act contact:
Student Success Coordinator
SACS District Homeless Liaison