Gateway Boarding Academy

What it reported doing in 2025

GateWay Boarding Academy [GBA] continues to work diligently to maintain a cadre of volunteers and to identify potential staff members in order to maximize continued program growth while balancing program cost increases. This year we strengthened our instructional effectiveness by attracting and hiring a retired teacher/media specialist with a heart to serve youth, and years of experience meeting the instructional needs of a similar student body. Additionally, GBA continued to vet all its staff and volunteers through an extensive background HR Screening process, and Youth Protection & Reporting training. Also, this year, our After-School, Structured Instructional Support Time [A.S.S.I.S.T] program continued to use HMHs [Houghton/ Mifflin/Harcourt] READ 180 and MATH 180 programs. This program combines the effectiveness of proven research-based computer reinforced curriculum with learning style specific, individualized instruction in a culture of acceptance, despite any academic or problem-solving challenges. Our students continue to benefit from the consistent, collaborative, and caring approach of our professional staff and volunteers serving at GBA and we continue to accomplish our mission by serving, in-person, a population which includes Middle and High-school students initially performing at least 2-3 years below grade level in reading/English and/or math, including those who have an active I.E.P. [qualified as Special Education]. We also continue to serve students referred to us through the foster care system, often with multiple changes in their living environments. We continue to intensify recruitment of Middle School students thereby giving the greatest amount of time for students to achieve grade level performance. Programmatically, GBA provided over 30 weeks of math, and of Reading/English remedial instruction with class sizes of 4 or less, in the A.S.S.I.S.T program. In addition to teacher-led assessments, initial and subsequent periodic assessment is used to verify academic growth through the NWEA national instructional assessment system. Board committees continue to work with staff to actively manage the three major GBA programs despite increased costs particularly of the Young Mens Adventure summer camp experience, while seeking a less expensive alternative that incorporates the programs core values: temperance, deferred gratification, accountability, respect, integrity, endurance, empathy, community service and commitment to excellence. This year, however, despite the cost, we continued the camp experience designed to strengthen students in those core values.Finally, beyond the needed academic support, in 2025 GateWay continued to engage business owners from the local community, certified in their respective vocations to provide experiences that reinforced the real-world relevance of academics through the summer, Earn and Learn Pre-Apprentice Program. Areas this year included: electrician, culinary arts, construction and woodworking. We were most excited to have one of our previous students- now a college sophomore- return as an intern to assist the current students in their endeavors to learn a trade that applies the reading and math that they continue to learn in the classroom.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings