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BPS cancels last day of school for three schools on Celtics parade route

By adamg - 6/20/24 - 9:50 am

Wednesday night, BPS notified parents of kids at Snowden International High School, the Josiah Quincy (both lower and upper schools) and the Eliot School (all three schools) that the last day of classes for the year is today, because there was no way to get kids to school and have a Celtics championship parade, NorthEnd.page reports, adding that state officials signed off on the move which "left parents scrambling to find childcare and reschedule end-of-year activities."

How one BPS school went from desgregated to resegregated

By adamg - 6/18/24 - 10:57 am

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the court order that required Boston to desegregate its schools, WBUR looks at the Eliot School in the North End, which went from having racial parity to becoming mostly white once again - in a school district that is mostly Black and Hispanic.

BPS rejects parent proposal to shut Charlestown High School to make way for new school largely free of BPS oversight

By adamg - 1/19/22 - 6:45 pm

A BPS committee this evening rejected a proposal to shut Charlestown High School and use its building for a brand-new "innovation and inclusion" school that would be largely autonomous from BPS and would limit enrollment to students from elementary schools in Charlestown and the North End. Read more

BPS shuts Eliot School for a week after somebody affiliated with it tests positive for coronavirus

By adamg - 3/11/20 - 7:46 pm

BPS today alerted parents of students at the Eliot K-8 School in the North End that it is closing all three of its building tomorrow for a week because somebody affiliated with the school has tested positive for Covid-19.

In e-mail, School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius wrote: Read more.

Ciizen complaint of the day: New North End school needs a crossing guard, pronto

By adamg - 9/6/19 - 9:01 am

The new Eliot School building on Commercial Street opened to students yesterday. This morning, several concerned citizens filed 311 complaints, including this one, about the problems kids are having crossing what could be the North End's busiest, widest street, just off what could be its busiest, widest intersection:

No crossing guard for Eliot school on commercial street. Traffic is treacherous. Drivers are crazy. Someone's going to get hurt.

New Eliot School building opens this fall

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 10:08 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on the impending opening of the new Eliot School building at 585 Commercial St., which once served as headquarters for Mitt Romney's failed 2012 presidential bid.

Eliot School may have outgrown its space in Jamaica Plain after more than 340 years, could move out of neighborhood

By adamg - 7/5/19 - 9:22 am

Jamaica Plain News reports.

School bus driver put on leave after shouting match with motorist in the North End

By adamg - 1/13/17 - 4:54 pm

A school-bus driver and a motorist got into a "negative verbal interaction" shortly before dismissal at the Eliot School on Charter Street yesterday that required a police officer to break up, according to a note the school sent to parents today. Read more.

Eliot School gets room to expand

By adamg - 5/14/12 - 10:16 pm

Mayor Menino today announced a building swap with the North Bennet Street School that could let the Eliot K-8 School double in size.

North Bennet Street will pay the city $11.4 million for 150 North St. and 130-140 Richmond St. and will give the city its current buildings at 37-39 North Bennet St. and 48-52 Tileston St.

Eliot School parents put in symbolic bid for vacant city buildings

By adamg - 2/16/12 - 2:36 pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on their latest efforts to gain more space for the school.

Parents seek to expand North End school

By adamg - 3/26/11 - 1:09 pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com posts a copy of a petition from parents at the Eliot School asking the city to expand what is the downtown area's only public elementary school:

The recent Boston Public School lottery assignments left many of our families with no placements in the system. These displaced North End families are now facing very difficult decisions regarding their ability to raise their children here.

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