Newton South High School
Aerial Photograph of Newton South High School taken on December 30, 2014 from a Cessna 172
Address
Map
140 Brandeis Road

Newton
,
Massachusetts
02459

United States
Coordinates42°18′51.73″N 71°11′11.36″W / 42.3143694°N 71.1864889°W / 42.3143694; -71.1864889
Information
MottoBona mens omnibus patet
(A good mind is open to all things)
Established1960; 64 years ago (1960)
School districtNewton Public Schools
CEEB code221548
PrincipalTamara Stras
Teaching staff153.5 (2018–19)[2]
Grades9–12[1]
Enrollment1,911 (2018–19)[1]
Student to teacher ratio12.4∶1 (2018–19)[2]
Campus size33.477 acres (13.548 ha)
Color(s)  Blue
  Orange
MascotLion
NewspaperThe Lion's Roar, Denebola
YearbookRegulus
Websitenshs.newton.k12.ma.us
Last updated: May 11, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-05-11)

Newton South High School is one of two public high schools in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, United States, the other being Newton North.

History and student life

By the late 1950s, Newton's sole public high school, Newton High, grew to 3,000 students. Newton built a new school, Newton South, in the Oak Hill neighborhood in 1960.[3] The school is organized into four student houses—Cutler, Goldrick, Goodwin, and Wheeler—each with a student commons.[3]

Newton South was the first public high school to create a gay–straight alliance in the United States in the early 1990s.[4]

Newton South features two award-winning student newspapers, Denebola and The Lion's Roar.[5]

U.S. News & World Report ranked Newton South as the 664th-best high school in the country and 20th-best in the Massachusetts in its 2020 rankings.[6]

The school is part of the Newton Public School District.

Public attention

The school gained notoriety in 2002 for its "Senior Scavenger Hunt",[7] a student-organized contest that featured theft, vandalism, illegal drug use, and various sexual acts committed by the graduating seniors in exchange for points.[8]

On February 8, 2007, the Newton South STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition chapter organized a Darfur Benefit Concert with the well known band, State Radio, raising over $23,000 for Save the Children and the Genocide Intervention Network.[9]

Sports

Newton South competes in the DCL (Dual County League).[citation needed]

Awards and recognition

Newton South was named Massachusetts's top athletic program by Sports Illustrated in 2009.[10]

Notable alumni

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (May 2019)

References

  1. ^ a b "Enrollment Data (2018-19) - Newton South High (02070510)". profiles.doe.mass.edu. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Teacher Data (2018-19) - Newton South High (02070510)". profiles.doe.mass.edu. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  3. ^ a b From the description of Newton South High School History, 1960–2003. (Minuteman Library Network). WorldCat record id: 319889351. Published by SNAC Cooperative
  4. ^ Jennings, Kevin: Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir, page 196. Beacon Press, 2006.
  5. ^ Viser, Matt (February 20, 2005). "Double scoops: At Newton South, two papers vie to make headlines". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  6. ^ "Newton South High". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  7. ^ Time Waster. "Lewd, Crude High School Scavenger Hunt". The Smoking Gun. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  8. ^ "Lewd, Crude High School Scavenger Hunt". The Smoking Gun. December 11, 2013. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  9. ^ Christopher Loh and Maggie Mastricola (February 13, 2007). "Darfur Benefit Concert Multimedia Sound Slide Show". Newton Tab. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  10. ^ "Top athletics program in each state and the District of Columbia". Sports Illustrated. July 6, 2009. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  11. ^ Springer, Shira (October 2, 2015). "Newton native becomes seller to the stars". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on October 4, 2015.
  12. ^ "Regulus". Internet Archive. 2004. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
  13. ^ "Newton Native Alex Karpovsky On Indie Film, Neurosis, Playing 'Ray' on HBO's 'Girls'". WBUR. April 9, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  14. ^ a b c d Vu, Augustine. "Famous Newton South Alumni". Denebola. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
  15. ^ "Newton South High School Class of 1998". newtonsouthhighschool.org. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  16. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  17. ^ Epstein, Maddy (October 16, 2016). "Hari Nef: A Rising Transgender Model Superstar From Newton South – NSHS Denebola". Denebola. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  18. ^ "Old Friends". Old Friends. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
  19. ^ Wood, Graeme (August 3, 2023). "How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 21, 2023.

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