ABOUT HARVARD-KENT

What Makes Our School Special:

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• Focus on the whole child: academics, health and wellness, and character.

• Our students' academic gains are some of the highest in the city, earning us Level 1 Status.

• Our math scores are among of the highest in the city and we are piloting a new and exciting math curriculum that helps students develop a deep understanding of math concepts.

• Daily enrichment block where students choose from a menu of exciting activities that extend their learning in new ways. Examples include: Mandarin, theater, Irish step dancing, yoga, Kids Cooking Green, Careers in the Community, 5th Grade Leadership Group, and Mathletes.

• Fruits and Vegetables Grant provides healthy snacks for every child, every day.

• Gymnasium with two full-time gym teachers to ensure every student has physical education class at least once per week.

• Full time science teacher with dedicated science lab and outdoor classroom. Every student participates in special science instruction in our spacious science lab once per week, Grades 4 & 5 have science twice per week.

• Expeditionary Learning curriculum in grades 3, 4, and 5.

• Students receive at least a half-year of music and a full year of visual arts and/or computers. 

• Brand new state-of-the-art computer lab donated by the Boston Celtics.

• The Harvard-Kent Leadership Scholarship is an effort by local community leaders that supports our art and music programs and has provided $1,000 college scholarships to two 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders for the past eleven years.