Newton Early Childhood Program (Preschool) 161 Angier Elementary 381 Bowen Elementary 336 Burr Elementary 336 Cabot Elementary 378 Countryside Elementary 368 Franklin Elementary 299 Horace Mann Elementary 342 Lincoln-Eliot Elementary 355 Mason-Rice Elementary 310 Memorial-Spaulding Elementary 356 Peirce Elementary 245 Underwood Elementary 251 Ward Elementary 202 Williams Elementary 198 Zervas Elementary 389 Bigelow Middle School 462 Brown Middle School 698 Day Middle School 830 Oak Hill Middle School 654 Newton North High School 2080 Newton South High School 1865 Subtotal Enrollment 11,496 Alternative High School Out of District Placements 107 Total Newton Public Schools Enrollment 11,603
In 1966, as one of the seven founding districts, Newton Public Schools joined the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program. This is a state-funded educational program designed to eliminate racial imbalance through the busing of children from Boston and Springfield to public systems in surrounding suburban metropolitan communities. The Program is open to all children of African American, Latino, Asian and Native American descent who reside in the City of Boston and volunteer to participate. Newton's METCO program is the largest, maintaining a targeted enrollment of 431 students (3.4%) in grades K-12. Elementary Attendance Zones Newton Public Schools are organized around a neighborhood school model in which students attend elementary schools that service specific geographic areas of the city. Among the primary considerations that govern the establishment of a school attendance zone include a desire to maintain established neighborhoods, enrollment trends, travel distance, natural boundaries, safe walking routes, traffic patterns, and school capacity. Elementary students attend the school in the attendance zone in which they live unless they are participating in a program outside of their home school; are approved for the elementary transfer
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