The programs that follow describe articulation between community colleges and local high schools. Mount Ida and the two Newton High Schools have developed over a two-year period a set of initial agreements between degree programs at the Associate level and departments in the high schools, specifically in areas of Technical Electricity and Child Study.
More agreements are presently in their planning stages.
Through these agreements, eleventh and twelfth grade students may attend classes at the College and, upon matriculating at Mount Ida, receive academic credit or a waiver of requirements in one of the programs listed above as well as the potential for academic credit at the high school. The Longfellow Pre-School, Mount Ida's internationally known laboratory school, offers Newton students an opportunity to perfect their pedagogical skills and an inducement to master the theoretical component of the college curriculum. Students in a two-year vocational program in electrical and child study are accepted to a college major in their field with advanced standing. They are also invited to attend evening courses at the College while still in high school. Currently six students are enrolled in program.