Mission Hill School

Mission Hill School
Location
Map
20 Child Street

,
02130

Information
School typePublic pilot school
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997)
FounderDeborah Meier
Closed2022; 2 years ago (2022)
School boardMHS Governance Board
AuthorityBoston Public Schools
PrincipalValeria Lowe-Barehmi (at time of closure)
GradesPreK8
GenderCoeducational
Enrollment227 (2015–16)[1]
Education systemProgressive education
Democratic education
LanguageEnglish
PublicationMHS News
AffiliationsCoalition of Essential Schools
Websitewww.missionhillschool.org

The Mission Hill School was a small preK–8 public pilot school in the Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1997 by Deborah Meier, Elizabeth Knox Taylor, and colleagues, the school was administered by the Boston Public Schools. Meier has publicized the school in many of her works.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Mission Hill School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  2. ^ "Bridging Differences". Education Week. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  3. ^ In Schools We Trust. Beacon Press.
  4. ^ Democratic Education in Practice: Inside the Mission Hill School. Teachers College Press.
  5. ^ "A Year at Mission Hill film series". Retrieved 2013-05-06.