Community Charter School of Cambridge
Address
245 Bent Street Cambridge , Massachusetts 02141 United States
Information
Type	Public charter
Opened	August 2005
Middle School Principal	Jake Friedman
High School Principal	Naatuere Ajanaku
Head of school	Becki Norris
Grades	6-12
Number of students	360
Hours in school day	7 hours 10 minutes (Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri.), 5 hours (Wed.)
Area	Kendall Square
Color(s)	Red & Black
Sports	Soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, cross country, track and field, volleyball
Mascot	Cougar
Nickname	CCSC
Team name	CCSC Cougars
Rival	PHA
Website	http://www.ccscambridge.org/

Community Charter School of Cambridge is a charter school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Located in the Kendall Square area near MIT, the school serves 360 students in grades 6-12. CCSC opened in September 2005.

History

The school was initially scheduled to open in the fall of 2005 with grades 7 and 8. It was to receive 180 students, with 150 being from Cambridge.^[2] Paula Evans, a former headmaster of the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, co-founded the school with Emma Stellman, formerly a physics teacher from Cambridge Rindge & Latin, and Rob Riordan, a co-founder of High Tech High and former faculty member at Cambridge Rindge & Latin.

The school had a controversial start. Before it was granted a charter from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Cambridge Public Schools superintendent and members of the school committee of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) asked Evans to halt her project. Nancy Walser, a board member of CPS at the time, said that some members of the charter school board had resigned by February 2004 and that opponents to the charter school passed the information along but never pressured people.^[3]

Notable alumni

• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev^[4] – Boston Marathon bomber and terrorist; attended the middle school program, withdrew in grade 9.^[5]