Fenway High School

Special admission process: call the school for details or go to: www.fenwayhs.org.

Special features:

• Founded in 1983, becoming one of Boston’s six original pilot schools in 1994
• Three-way approach to education: intellectual challenge, personalized relationships, and collaborations with outside organizations
• Extensive use of portfolios, projects, and exhibitions
• Ventures, a six-week internship program for all seniors
• Very high graduation and college admissions rates
• Rated one of America’s Best High Schools in 2010 by U.S. News and World Report magazine
• Diverse, respectful, community-spirited students and faculty
• Strong student support team
• Student group advisories: students form strong bonds with staff and classmates over four years together
• School partners: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston Museum of Science, Boston Teacher Residency, Children’s Hospital , Project Hip Hop, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Emmanuel College , Tufts University Ed. Dept., Facing History and Ourselves, Harvard School Leadership Program, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Pfizer Research Technology Center (RTC)

Note: Fenway High School will move to 67 Alleghany St., Roxbury, by the Fall of 2013.