Beacon High School is a co-educational, therapeutic, alternative high school located in Watertown, Massachusetts that serves 60 students, ages 14–22, from the Greater Boston area. The Beacon High School mission is to provide integrated educational and therapeutic services in an academic environment that encourages student growth and responsibility.

Students at Beacon High are intelligent, talented and creative, but their emotional problems, learning difficulties, and other serious issues have kept them from reaching their full potential. Many Beacon students have demonstrated above-average success in prior grades until events in their lives halted or unraveled academic progress. Traditional public and private schools have been unable to adequately address Beacon students’ special educational needs and their unique set of academic and social challenges. Beacon High School provides a rigorous, college-preparatory academic curriculum in a safe, supportive setting.
 
Beacon High School has welcomed students since 1971, formerly as New Perspectives School in Brookline; it is Chapter 766-approved by the Massachusetts Department of Education and certified by the Watertown School Committee to grant a high school diploma. In September 2006, Beacon opened the school year at a newly acquired and beautifully renovated facility on the Walker Watertown campus.

For more information, contact Director Nancy Lincoln by e-mail or by telephone at 617-993-5100.

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