Massachusetts Schools: G-R
Gann Academy, Waltham
Religious affiliation: Jewish
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Gann Academy is a small private high school offer a college preparatory curriculum rooted in the Jewish faith. The school offers AP courses and study abroad options.
The Governor's Academy, Byfield
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school
Comments: The Governor's Academy was founded in 1763 making it one of our oldest private schools. This is a selective school which offers college preparatory courses of the highest standard. The 450 acre campus is located in the greater Boston area.
Groton School, Groton
Religious affiliation: Episcopal
Grades: 8-12
School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school
Comments: One of America's top boarding schools, Groton offers virtually everything you could want in a serious college preparatory school. The vast array of courses, sports and extracurricular activities coupled with facilities to match make Groton highly sought after.
Harborlight Montessori School, Beverly
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: N-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Harborlight Montessori School has been serving the north shore area of Boston since 1971. The school is medium size with about 300 students. Small classes and a traditional Montessori approach are features of HMS.
Hillside School, Marlborough
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 5-9
School Type: Boys, boarding day school
Comments: Hillside School was founded in 1901. It is a small boarding school serving adolescent boys with a comprehensive program and plenty of warm caring guidance.
Holden School, Boston
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 7-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Holden School merged with the Compass organization in 2007. This special needs school offers alternative and special schooling for students who are not served adequately by other programs.
Holyoke Catholic High School, Holyoke
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Holyoke Catholic High School offers a rigorous college preparatory curriculum combined with traditional Catholic values and teachings. 95% of the school's graduates go on to college.
The Imago School, Maynard
Religious affiliation: Christian
Grades: K-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Imago School is a small Christian school serving Middlesex County northwest of Boston.
Immaculate Conception School, Newburyport
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: PK-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Immaculate Conception School offers a traditional Catholic education. It is a feeder school for several regional high schools.
Jewish Community Day School, Watertown
Religious affiliation: Jewish
Grades: K-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Jewish Community Day School is not affiliated with any one branch of Judaism. It teaches core Jewish values as part of a rigorous academic program.
Inly School, Scituate
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: N-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Inly School servers 16 towns on Boston's south shore with toddler, pre-school, kindergarten, elementary and middle school programs.
Jackson School, Newton
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: K-6
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Jackson School is a small elementary school sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston. The curriculum is comprehensive and rooted in core CAtholic values and teachings.
Judge Rotenberg Center, Canton, MA
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 2-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Judge Rotenberg Center is a special needs school which offers schooling and "treatment to both high-functioning students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems and low-functioning students with autistic-like behaviors."
Keystone Montessori School, North Chelmsford
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: PK-4
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Keystone Montessori School is owned and operated by trained Montessori professionals.
The Kingsley Montessori School, Boston
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: PK-6
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Kingsley Montessori School offers a traditional Montessori program. Its graduates move on to the best schools in the area.
Landmark School, Prides Crossing
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 2-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Landmark School is a special needs school offering programs for students with language-based learning difficulties. Prides Crossing is one of two north shore campuses.
Lawrence Academy, Groton
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school
Comments: Lawrence Academy was founded in 1793. It offers a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, extensive sports and extracurricular activities.
Lesley Ellis School, Arlington
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: K-5
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Lesley Ellis School is a progressive school serving the Arlington area. It is a small school with about 150 students. The elementary division offers multi-age classes.
Lexington Christian Academy, Lexington
Religious affiliation: Christian
Grades: 6-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Lexington Christian Academy was founded in 1946. It offers a college preparatory curriculum rooted in core Christian values. The school has about 350 students.
Linden Hill School, Northfield
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 4-9
School Type: Boys, boarding/day school
Comments:
Linden Hill School founded in 1961, is the nation's oldest boarding school of its kind for the remediation of dyslexia.
Lowell Catholic High School, Lowell
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Lowell Catholic is a small college preparatory high school. It is fully accredited and offers 7 AP courses.
Maimonides School, Brookline
Religious affiliation: Jewish
Grades: K-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Maimonides School was founded in 1937. It has a faculty of over 150 professionals including 6 ordained rabbis. The school offers serious college preparatory studies combined with Jewish teachings as well as a host of enrichment activities.
Malden Catholic High School, Malden
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Boys, day school
Comments: Malden Catholic High School is a large college preparatory institution run by the Xaverian Brothers. The school offers a full range of academics, sports and extracurricular activities.
Matignon High School, Cambridge
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Matignon High School serves the Cambridge community with a college preparatory program and sports including hockey.
Meridian Academy, Jamaica Plain
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 6-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Meridian Academy is a new, small private school serving the Jamaica Plain area of Boston. The school has plans to expand through to 12th grade. The curriculum blends progressive and traditional elements to achieve a student-centric approach.
MetroWest Jewish Day School, Framingham
Religious affiliation: Jewish
Grades: K-5
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: MetroWest Jewish Day School recycled a public elementary school building and created a school community which offers general and Judaic studies. The school is kosher and nut-free.
Middlesex School, Concord
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian Grades: 9-12 School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school Comments: Middlesex School was founded in 1901. A selective school, Middlesex offers serious academics including courses in Chinese. economics and statistics. The school has superb teachers, extensive sports programs and all the amenities...
Milton Academy, Milton
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school
Comments: Milton Academy is a large private school located about 8 miles south of Boston. It is a selective school replete with all the academic courses, sports programs and extracurricular activities you would expect of one of the nation's oldest schools.
Miss Hall's School, Pittsfield
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Girls, boarding/day school
Comments: Miss Hall's School is a small, all girls' boarding school located in the western part of the state. Your daughter will find solid academics, plenty of sports and all kinds of clubs and other activities to engage her.
Montrose School, Medford
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 6-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Montrose School is a small girls' school offering a college preparatory education with a Catholic emphasis.
Mother Caroline Academy, Dorchester
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: 5-8
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Mother Caroline Academy serves about 60 girls from families of limited means in the Dorchester area of greater Boston.
Mount Alvernia Academy, Chestnut Hill
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: N-6
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception established Mount Alvernia Academy in 1927. It offers rigorous academics combined with traditional Catholic values.
Mount Alvernia High School, Newton
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Mount Alvernia High School was founded in 1927. It offers a solid college preparatory curriculum in the Franciscan tradition.
Mount Saint Joseph Academy, Brighton
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Mount Saint Joseph Academy is operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph. High academic standards and a host of extracurricular and sports activities are features of this selective school.
Nashoba Brooks School, Concord
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: PK-8
School Type: Coeducational/girls, day school
Comments: Coeducational in the primary grades but single gender in 4th through 8th grades, Nashoba Brooks is a school which understands early education. This student-centered school is set on 30 acres of picturesque land in historic Concord
Newton Country Day School, Newton
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 5-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic girls' school affiliated with the Sacred Heart worldwide schools network. It has been educating girls in the Boston area since 1880.
The Newman School, Boston
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-PG
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Newman School enjoys a superb city setting on the Back Bay in Boston. A small school with superb college preparatory courses enriched by all the amenities Boston affords, the Newman School is an IB school.
Noble and Greenough School, Dedham
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian Grades: 7-12 School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school Comments: Noble and Greenough is a very selective school. So have the right stuff to be accepted to enjoy the rigorous college prep curriculum, great sports and all the other features which this great school affords. Students can board in 9th through 12th grades.
North Cambridge Catholic High School, Cambridge
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: North Cambridge Catholic High School is a member of the Cristo del Rey Network of schools. Students do work-study to partially offset the cost of their schooling.
Northfield Mount Hermon School, Northfield
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-PG
School Type: Coeducational, boarding/day school
Comments: Northfield Mount Hermon has about 600 students. The school has the largest campus of any American school. The academics, sports, extracurricular activities and facilities make it a top prep school with many advantages you and your child will like.
Notre Dame Academy, Hingham
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: K-8
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur founded Notre Dame Academy in 1854. It offers a fine academic program rooted in traditional Catholic teachings and values.
Notre Dame Academy, Worcester
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Notre Dame Academy is the only private girls prep school in central Massachusetts. It offers college preparatory courses combined with Catholic traditions and values.
Odyssey School, Wakefield
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: N-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Odyssey School offers a vibrant academic program including foreign language instruction and computer instruction in the primary grades.
Our Lady of Nazareth Academy, Wakefield
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: Our Lady of Nazareth Academy offers a rigorous academic preparation for college. Your daughter will have plenty of sports and other activities to select from as well.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Grammar School, Roxbury
Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic
Grades: K-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Mission Grammar School is a small Catholic elementary school which was established in 1889. The school is accredited by NEASC.
The Park School, Brookline
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: PK-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Park School serves approximately 545 students from a 26 acre campus in Brookline. 91% of Park's graduates go on to independent secondary schools.
Penikese Island School, Woods Hole, MA
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: age 15- 18
School Type: Boys, therapeutic boarding school
Comments: Penikese Island School is located on a 75 acre island near Woods Hole. The programs and environment are designed to help struggling teenage boys deal with their issues and return to a mainstream environment in short order.
Phillips Academy Andover, Andover
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-PG
School Type: Coeducational, boarding school
Comments: Phillips Academy Andover was founded in 1778 a few years after Independence by prominent revolutionary family. It is widely considered to be one America's top prep schools. The academics, sports and everything else about the school are simply first-rate. This is a very selective school.
Pincushion Hill Montessori School, Ashland
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: PK-5
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Pincushion Hill Montessori is the oldest Montessori school in New England. It was founded in 1962. It uses traditional Montessori approaches and teaching style.
The Pingree School, South Hamilton
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Pingree School is located on a picturesque 105 acre campus. It serves 335 students from many south shore communities. The school provides a fine college preparation with courses at regular, honors, and AP levels.
The Pike School, Andover
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: PK-9
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Pike School was founded in 1926. It serves students in the Great Merrimack Valley region with academics which lay solid foundations for later learning.
Plumfield Academy, Danvers
Religious affiliation: Christian
Grades: 1-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: Plumfield Academy was founded in 1993. It follows the philosophy and approach of the English educator Charlotte Mason. "Her approach was deeply Christ centered and very human."
Presentation of Mary Academy, Methuen
Religious affiliation: Catholic
Grades: 9-12
School Type: Girls, day school
Comments: The Sisters of the Presentation of Mary operate the Academy for young women which bears their name. Rigorous college preparatory programs, sports and extracurricular activities combined with traditional Catholic values are hallmarks of the Academy.
The Rashi School, Newton
Religious affiliation: Jewish
Grades: K-8
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Rashi School is the only Reform Jewish day school in New England. It serves 300 students from 30 communities offering an excellent academic program rooted in Jewish traditions and values.
The Rivers School, Weston
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 6-12
School Type: Coeducational, day school
Comments: The Rivers School was founded in 1915. It offers independent, honors and AP courses as part of its rigorous college preparatory program.
Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury
Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian
Grades: 7-12
School Type: Boys, day school
Comments: Roxbury Latin School was founded in 1645. It is one of the country's most selective private schools. The academics are of the highest order. The sports program is small but vital as you'd expect from a city school with limited space. RLS benefits from all the cultural amenities Boston offers.