The Education Foundation is working to make Gloucester one of the five best school districts in Massachusetts in five years.

What does it mean to be "the best?" First, we share the District’s mission of helping students become successful, engaged, life-long learners. Along these lines, we seek to help the schools create a "Culture of Excellence" that provides healthy supportive learning environments, sets high expectations for all students, builds on the learning strengths of each child, and promotes a philosophy that everyone in our community benefits from excellent schools.

By "the best," we mean helping students achieve more academically, with higher test scores serving as one measure.

By "the best," we mean helping to offer a growing set of enrichment activities during and after school, such as world languages, applied math and science activities, and an expanded arts program including visual and performing arts.

By "the best," we mean to continually review and improve our efforts.