The Boulder Fund grant will allow Mass Insight to pilot a new program targeting middle school readiness. May. 22, 2025 –Boston– Mass Insight Education & Research’s President and CEO, Andrea Wolfe, has been selected in the 2025 cohort of Education Leaders of...
Partner Profile: The Springfield Renaissance School
MIE is proud to welcome The Springfield Renaissance School to our Core program as of this fall. Here’s some background on Renaissance:
- Principal: Arria Coburn
- District Superintendent: Daniel Warwick
- Cohort 10: Springfield Renaissance is in its first year as a partner school of MIE
- Springfield Renaissance is our smallest school in Cohort 10, with just about 100 students per grade
- It is also an Expeditionary Learning school, the only EL school in our Core program
- Springfield Renaissance boasts an impressive 100% college acceptance rate for the past seven years in a row
- Springfield native and Renaissance High grad Justin Winters just won the 4th annual Boston Blue Man Group Drum-Off!

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