Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471159132
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2013
- Location
- Bridgeport, CT, US
- Phone
- +1 (203) 870-8188
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,347,596
- Expenses
- $12,390,864
- Assets
- $19,841,683
- Liabilities
- $17,629,574
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN SCALICE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN SCALICE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $192,133 total reported compensation
- LATOYA HUBBARD (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $172,228 total reported compensation
- DENISE LINARES (MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL): $147,356 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Great Oaks Charter School Bridgeport our mission is to develop the mindset of all students socially and academically through unrelenting focus on academic achievement with individualized care and support so that students will reach their maximum potential and have the skills and knowledge to prepare them for college, other career opportunities, and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education: go-bpt is a public charter school that provides educational services to students from the local community. The school was granted a charter for 661 students from grades 6 to 12. Go-bpt was organized to create a rigorous, supportive middle & high school program that ensures its graduates have the requisite knowledge & habits of mind to earn a degree from a competitive four year college or university.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $192K · 18 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.