Boston Latin School
First public school in the United States
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| 2024 | Boys' Ice Hockey Team achieved a remarkable state championship victory in the MIAA Division 2, winning as the 11th seed by defeating the 10th, 6th, 3rd, and 1st ranked teams in a historic playoff run. |
| 2022 | Rachel Skerritt resigned at the conclusion of the 2021-22 school year and was succeeded by Jason Gallagher, who became Head of School. |
| 2021 | A new entrance exam, the MAP Growth test, was designated for students applying for entrance to the 2023-24 school year and beyond. |
| October 2020 | The Boston School Committee voted to cancel entrance exams for exam schools in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, implementing a new admissions procedure based on grades and zip codes. |
| 2019 | U.S. News & World Report rated Boston Latin School as the top high school in the Boston area and ranked 33rd nationally. |
| 2019 | Lawyers for Civil Rights and the Boston NAACP sent a letter to city officials seeking to redo the admissions policies to address disproportionate admission rates of Black and Hispanic students. |
| April 2019 | The Educational Records Bureau (ERB) reportedly decided to end its yearly contract with Boston Public Schools, claiming the ISEE test's scoring metric was incorrectly applied. |
| 2018 | Harvard Kennedy School released a brief explaining possible reasons for the racial gap in Boston Latin School's admissions, including lower ISEE participation and scores by Black and Hispanic students. |
| 2017 | Lawyers for Civil Rights published demographics showing Black students were invited to attend Boston Latin at a rate more than two and a half times lower than their enrollment rates in Boston Public Schools. |
| 2017 | Rachel Skerritt became the first person of color to serve as headmaster of Boston Latin School. |
| 2016 | Lynne Mooney Teta resigned amid a federal probe into racially charged incidents at the school. |
| 2011 | The school was awarded the 'Blue Ribbon School of Excellence', which is the Department of Education's highest award. |
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