Middlesex School

“Robert m. Bass and anne t. Bass have a family relationship.”

“Once the draft form 990 is prepared, it is first reviewed by middlesex management, including the controller, chief financial officer, and the head of school. It is then distributed to the audit committee for their review. An audit committee meeting is then scheduled to discuss the return, any changes in the current year, or difficulties encountered, etc. After the audit committee reviews and discusses the draft and proposes changes, if needed, they will approve the form 990 as they discussed. After approval by the audit committee, and prior to filing, a copy of the form 990 without schedule b will be distributed to all board members electronically (or, where email is not available, a hard copy of the form is provided via mail) prior to the actual filing of the return.”

“Conflict of interest/governance questionnaires are distributed annually to all current voting board members, all trustee emeriti (non-voting), all former trustees that were voting board members within the last five years, all key-employees, and all former key-employees that left employment with the school at some point within the last 5 years. If forms are not completed, a second request is sent out. All forms are reviewed by the chair of our trustee and governance committee and a summary is reported to the audit committee. If conflicts exist, the conflicted member abstains from voting on any decisions made by their respective committees or the board. It is documented in the meeting minutes where the vote is concerned.”

“An independent committee of the board of trustees is charged with annually evaluating the job performance of the principal salaried officer (head of school). The president of the board appoints four individuals to serve on the compensation committee. The practice has been to appoint the president, treasurer, and chair/vice-chair of the trustees and governance committee. The committee is advised by outside counsel who attends the meetings, takes minutes, and advises the committee members of any legal issues or questions that arise in the process. The president of the board asks all trustees to complete evaluation forms at the spring board meeting. The president of the board also solicits oral comments from the trustees during an executive session at the spring board meeting as well as conducts 360 degree interviews with senior administrators. In preparation for the interview with the head of school in june, the completed trustee evaluation forms are summarized for the members of the compensation committee. The head of school also prepares a summary of accomplishment of the prior school year and statement of goals met from the previous review and established for the coming school year. After the interview with the head, the head is excused, and the committee (not including any member who may have a conflict of interest with respect to the compensation arrangement being reviewed) deliberates in executive session to discuss the performance review and to review a compilation of compensation and benefit data assembled on a blind basis by the association of business officers of preparatory schools in order to establish a basis for adjusting the head's compensation and benefits for the coming school year. After reaching a conclusion on adjustments for the compensation and benefit arrangements for the coming year that would represent compensation based on the committee's review of the comparability data, the head is invited to hear the results. The decisions are recorded in the minutes of the committee, and the changes in compensation (if any) are memorialized in a letter and where necessary in amendments to the employment contract. The results are reported to the full board in executive session (without the head present) at the fall board meeting. Key employee job performance is evaluated by the head of school- including cfo, coo and directors of development, advancement and admissions. The annual compensation process involves attention to and avoidance of conflicts of interest, use of comparability data gathered and presented by an outside compensation expert and contemporaneous documentation of the meetings, deliberations and decisions. These processes were most recently undertaken in 2017.”

“Middlesex school provides governing documents, conflict of interest policy, financial statements, and form 990 upon request for the same period of disclosure as set forth in section 6104(d).”

“Change in value of charitable remainder trusts 2,331,174. Other changes in pension obligation 1,382,132.”

“We honor the ideal, articulated by our founding headmaster, of "finding the promise" in every student, and we work together in an atmosphere of mutual trust and shared responsibility to help students bring their talents to fruition as knowledgeable, capable, responsible and moral citizens of the world. As a community, we respect the individual interests, strengths, and needs of each student. We also value the rich diversity of belief and experience each of us brings to the school. We expect that each student will bring his or her best efforts to the shared endeavor of learning and that the school, through its faculty, will engage and encourage each student's growth, happiness, and well-being. We aspire for all middlesex students to develop personal integrity, intellectual vitality and discipline, and respect for themselves and for others. We expect each student to engage energetically and cooperatively in the life of the school, and we seek to inspire in all students the desire to seek understanding of themselves and the larger world, both now and in their futures. Operating principles - accomplishing this mission is the shared responsibility of the whole middlesex community. For that reason the school expects, of all its students, dedication to academic excellence, willingness to work energetically and cooperatively toward common goals in all activities, respect both for themselves and for the individual differences of others, and determination to reach beyond merely comfortable limits of knowledge and experience. In the same spirit the school provides students with small classes and a strong, rich, varied curriculum; with a talented, dedicated, and accessible faculty, most of whom teach, coach, and live on campus with the students; with outstanding facilities for academics, athletics, and the arts; and with a social community whose members represent different backgrounds and interests. Taken together, these elements - supplemented by advising, counseling, school assemblies and special programs, weekly chapel gatherings, informal courses and peer support groups: make up a secondary school experience remarkable for its breadth and depth.”