Heath School

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Heath School is a Brookline Public School in the Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts area.

The Heath School serves the Chestnut Hill neighborhoods and has a population of 400 students. The school was fully renovated in 1996 with additional space added for administrative offices, library, science, art, and music classrooms.

Heath’s core values are Build Community, Communicate Respect, Work Hard and Strive for Excellence. The school places a high value on student achievement and teacher collaboration. Pre-K through Grade 3 students participate in a monthly Heath Family Meeting. In grades 4-8, elected representatives serve on Student Council and two 8th graders also serve as members of the Heath School Council. A number of events are held throughout the year, including Field Day, Music in the Morning, Day of the Reader, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day assembly. All grades participate in community service, and Heath has an ongoing relationship with the Ronald McDonald House as a community service project for 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Family events include a Welcome BBQ, Family Math Night, Family Book Clubs that meet four times a year, Black History Month Celebration and International Night. The PTO plays an important role in the school and organizes many events to encourage parent participation.The kindergarten through fifth grade classes are all with one teacher except for art, music, library, and gym. In the sixth grade, the structure changes. One teacher teaches social studies to both classes and the other teacher teaches science to both classes. The classes are also divided by ability in math. In the seventh and eighth grades, there are homeroom teachers with teachers available for every different subject (science, spanish/french, english, math and social studies) The School's mascot used to be the Hearts before being changed to the Hawks in 2005.