ACE partners with the Andover Public Schools to support innovative, curriculum enhancing, system-wide initiatives that will inspire our students to succeed in facing today’s global challenges.
Andover Coalition for Education (ACE)
Since our launch in November 2005, ACE grants for the Andover schools have exceeded:
What’s happening next?
2023 Scarecrow Festival – Join us as a sponsor for this year’s festival! To learn more, click here.
Help us Grow Our Pumpkin Patch – For a $10 donation, ACE will place a pumpkin at the elementary school of your choice to grow that school’s patch of ‘lil pumpkins!
Teacher Tribute Giving – Honor a teacher or staff member today by making a gift to ACE to support our schools! Here are the 2023 ACE Teacher Tribute recipients.
Make a gift to ACE to support education in Andover! Give any amount that demonstrates how you value education for your kids and our community!
Recent Highlights
- Invested $32,000 in Fall 2022 to support engineering equipment to support student design work in the middle and high school.
- Featured in The Andovers Magazine in April 2022
- Awarded more than $27,000 in 2022 to support fifteen new Teaching Innovation Fund (TIF) grants! The projects span the arts, sciences, literacy, and math.
- Lenore Price was recognized and awarded the Rotary Club’s Citizens Who Cares Award in March 2021 for her leadership and dedication to the Andover community and our schools. A wonderful highlight VIDEO shares her commitment to our mission.
- Funded 3 major district initiatives in 2019-2020 with almost $100,000 given to our schools.
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Our Latest News
October 19, 2021, Andover Townsman: Scarecrows Raise $25,000 for ACE
Overnight 10 new pumpkins “grew” in the Sanborn Elementary pumpkin patch after a parent posted a photo of Bancroft “winning” with the number of Andover Coalition for Education pumpkins placed with their scarecrow. Read More
April 10, 2021, Andover Townsman: ACE plans new fundraiser
Andover Coalition for Education (ACE) is hosting an event in May meant to get people moving and honor teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week. May 1 to 8 will be a Race for ACE, "a movement challenge to raise money for our schools." Read More
March 15, 2021, Eagle Tribune: Andover’s educational experiment: Students get take-home science kits
Students get take-home science kits thanks to community group ANDOVER — Learning through trial and error, forming hypotheses and conducting science experiments were traditionally a cornerstone of the classroom experience — until COVID-19 hit. When the pandemic forced...
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ACE is a Field of Interest Fund of the Essex County Community Foundation (MA), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization (Tax ID 04-3407816.) Donations to ACE are tax-deductible.
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Andover Coalition for Education
P.O. Box 1521
Andover, MA 01810