page_title: Newburyport, Massachusetts
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Newburyport, Massachusetts / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Newburyport High School in eponymous town in Massachusetts. Est. 1831.
context_page_description: Newburyport is a small coastal, scenic, and historic city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, 35 miles northeast of Boston. The population was 17,416 at the 2010 census. A historic seaport with vibrant tourism industry, Newburyport includes part of Plum Island. Plum Island consists of its own history as well. The mooring, winter storage, and maintenance of recreational boats, motor and sail, still contribute a large part of the city's income. A Coast Guard station oversees boating activity, especially in the sometimes dangerous tidal currents of the Merrimack River.
  At the edge of the Newbury Marshes, delineating Newburyport to the south, an industrial park provides a wide range of jobs. Newburyport is on a major north-south highway, Interstate 95. The outer circumferential highway of Boston, Interstate 495, passes nearby in Amesbury. The Newburyport Turnpike still traverses Newburyport on its way north. The Newburyport/Rockport MBTA commuter rail from Boston's North Station terminates in Newburyport. The earlier Boston and Maine Railroad leading farther north was discontinued, but a portion of it has been converted into a recreation trail.
context_section_description: The current site of Newburyport High School was purchased from Harvard University early in the 20th century. Newburyport High School is one of the oldest public high schools in the United States.
  Newburyport is served by several public schools, belonging to the Newburyport School District, and several private schools.
  Francis T. Bresnahan Lower Elementary School: pre-kindergarten to grade 3
  Edward G. Molin Upper Elementary School: grades 4 and 5
  Rupert A. Nock Middle School: grades 6 to 8
  Newburyport High School: grades 9 to 12
  River Valley Charter School: grades kindergarten to 8
  Immaculate Conception Catholic School: grades pre-kindergarten to 8
  Newburyport Montessori School: pre-kindergarten and kindergarten
  On Monday, November 4, 2019, the Newburyport School Committee unanimously (with one member absent) voted to implement a Start School Later policy, the first of the Cape Ann League to do so.
  The times will be:
  Francis T. Bresnahan Lower Elementary School: pre-kindergarten to grade 3; 8:20–2:50
  Edward G. Molin Upper Elementary School: grades 4 and 5; and Rupert A. Nock Middle School: grades 6 to 8; 7:45–2:15
  Newburyport High School: grades 9 to 12; 8:15–2:45
  Newburyport is served by the Newburyport Public Library, part of the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.
caption: Newburyport High School
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