Our Campus
Park’s 34-acre campus is a wonderful place to grow up.
With dedicated, student-centered facilities, the Early Childhood spaces create a warm environment for young learners. As students continue on their educational journey at Park, the campus meets their growing needs to learn, compete, and explore. The central buildings contain classrooms, science labs, music rooms, gymnasiums, a large theater, a Makerspace, and an outstanding library that serves as the heart of the School. Located only 6.4 miles from downtown Boston, our expansive outdoor spaces include six grass playing fields, three playgrounds, and the Outdoor Learning Garden.
The Park School is located on the tribal homelands of the Massachusett Nation, which they called “Shawmut.”
In the Algonquian language Massachusetts means “people of great hills,” which refers to the Blue Hills. Read more.
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The Main Building encompasses most of our academic spaces for students in Kindergarten-Grade 8, allowing for daily connection between some of the youngest and oldest children at Park. All visitors should enter the School through the Main Entrance.
The Early Childhood Program provides PreK and Kindergarten students with their own spaces to explore, play, learn, and develop a sense of community. PreK has its own space at 255 Goddard Avenue and Kindergarten students transition to the Main Building at 171 Goddard Avenue.
The Makerspace provides students in Grades 3–8 with a multitude of tools so they can imagine and create! It’s home to 3D printers, an Epilog laser cutter, a CNC carving machine, and a vinyl cutter, as well as equipment for basic metalsmithing, leather crafting, and sewing.
The Main Gymnasium is used year-round for Physical Education classes and games.
This 1997 addition significantly expanded the School’s classroom, science lab, and gym space. Upper Division math classrooms are on the top floor; Upper Division science classrooms with separate lab and project space are on the second floor.
Two full-size basketball courts on the ground floor serve as instructional space for PE, home court for basketball and volleyball teams, and the site of Yule Festival, Park’s all-school winter celebration.
Students in all grades have the opportunity to learn in the OLG, which features a vegetable garden, raised beds, a mushroom garden, water catchment systems, cold frames, a mini orchard, and a modular milk crate container garden.
Park students enjoy daily recess, when they use the School’s recreational facilities, fields, and woods.
Scott Young, Park’s 14th Head of School, lives on campus with his family. He and his wife, Katie, often host events at their home for members of the community.
Park's athletic program introduces students to a variety of individual and team sports. Athletes get the opportunity to develop sport-specific skills, tactical awareness, and physical strength in a competitive setting. The Main Field is used for Soccer in the fall and Track & Field in the spring.
In the summer of 2022, Park will elevate athletics facilities for our student athletes, optimizing our outdoor facilities while preserving the natural beauty of our campus. We will build a state-of-the-art turf field, encompassing the current Faulkner Field and Goddard Field, to prepare our students for competition at the secondary school level where turf is the norm, and extend our outdoor field access – previously limited by weather and field conditions – for PE, athletics, and recess.
Park's athletic program introduces students to a variety of individual and team sports. Athletes get the opportunity to develop sport-specific skills, tactical awareness, and physical strength in a competitive setting. The Upper North Field is used for Field Hockey in the fall and Lacrosse in the spring.
Park's athletic program introduces students to a variety of individual and team sports. Athletes get the opportunity to develop sport-specific skills, tactical awareness, and physical strength in a competitive setting. The Lower North Field is used for Soccer in the fall and Lacrosse in the spring.
Park's natural grass fields are irrigated with stormwater collected in a retention pond located on the edge of this field. The Pond Field is used for Field Hockey in the fall and Lacrosse in the spring.
255 Goddard Avenue is the location of the PreK program space and Faulkner House which is home to Park's Development Team, Summer at Park, Creative Arts at Park, meeting space, and faculty housing.
In the summer, our beautiful heated outdoor pool, which has a 3-foot shallow end and a 10-foot deep end, is used by campers enrolled in Summer at Park and Creative Arts at Park. On weekends and during weekday evenings, families who join Park’s Swim Club cool off and enjoy the main pool and toddler pool.
The Faulkner House (255 Goddard Avenue) is home to Park’s Development Team, Summer at Park, Creative Arts at Park (CAAP), meeting space, and some faculty housing.
Park's PreK program, located in its own dedicated building at 255 Goddard Avenue, lays a strong educational foundation in literacy, social studies, math, science, and social-emotional learning.
Parking for PreK drop off and pickup, sporting events, and overflow parking for events.
Building upon the introduction of indoor adventure equipment in 2019, a new outdoor ropes course incorporating high and low elements will be open for the start of the 2022-23 school year. The ropes course will challenge students to work independently and collaboratively, to problem-solve and take healthy risks – a workout for the brain and the body.
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For over 50 years, The Park School has been ahead of its time. This holds true for its student-centered educational philosophy, but it also holds true in another area: its architecture.This article by Amanda Reeser Lawrence, PhD, originally appeared in the 2020-21 State of the School Report on Progress & Philanthropy. Read more.
A brief history of the people and buildings who inhabited the land on Goddard Avenue before the School moved to its current location in 1971. Originally published in the Spring 2007 issue of The Park School Bulletin. Read more.
Park's remarkable campus provides for creative, open-ended play, competitive sport, scientific exploration, artistic inspiration, and community gathering. With its six athletic fields, old-growth woods, gardens, plantings, playgrounds, and rocky outcrops, this gorgeous parcel of South Brookline has been a defining part of the Park experience for at least two generations. Originally published in the 2021 Summer Bulletin. Read more.