Frank Ashley
Day Middle School is a public
middle schoolMiddle school or junior high school serves as a "bridge" between elementary school and high school. The terms can be used in different ways in different countries, sometimes interchangeably...
located in the village of
NewtonvilleNewtonville is a village of Newton, Massachusetts.Located in Newtonville is Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools. Also located in Newtonville is the MBTA Commuter Rail train station, which is serviced by the buses 59, 553, 554, and 556....
in
Newton, MassachusettsNewton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2000 census, the population of Newton was 83,829, making it the tenth largest city in the state.-Villages:...
. Students from Peirce, Cabot, Burr, Franklin and Horace Mann Elementary Schools go to this middle school, and in turn the Day students attend
Newton North High SchoolNewton North High School is the larger and longer-established of two public high schools in Newton, Massachusetts, with about 2000 students. It is located in the village of Newtonville...
. As with the
Charles E. Brown Middle SchoolCharles E. Brown Middle School is a public Junior High School in Newton, Massachusetts. As of 2007, total number of enrollments numbered 664 while teachers numbered 63, bringing the student/teacher ratio to 10.6 whereas elsewhere in the state is averaged at 10.0...
, F.A. Day was a junior high school prior to fall 1992 when it expanded from housing only the seventh and eighth grades to include the sixth grade.
Frank Ashley
Day Middle School is a public
middle schoolMiddle school or junior high school serves as a "bridge" between elementary school and high school. The terms can be used in different ways in different countries, sometimes interchangeably...
located in the village of
NewtonvilleNewtonville is a village of Newton, Massachusetts.Located in Newtonville is Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools. Also located in Newtonville is the MBTA Commuter Rail train station, which is serviced by the buses 59, 553, 554, and 556....
in
Newton, MassachusettsNewton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2000 census, the population of Newton was 83,829, making it the tenth largest city in the state.-Villages:...
. Students from Peirce, Cabot, Burr, Franklin and Horace Mann Elementary Schools go to this middle school, and in turn the Day students attend
Newton North High SchoolNewton North High School is the larger and longer-established of two public high schools in Newton, Massachusetts, with about 2000 students. It is located in the village of Newtonville...
. As with the
Charles E. Brown Middle SchoolCharles E. Brown Middle School is a public Junior High School in Newton, Massachusetts. As of 2007, total number of enrollments numbered 664 while teachers numbered 63, bringing the student/teacher ratio to 10.6 whereas elsewhere in the state is averaged at 10.0...
, F.A. Day was a junior high school prior to fall 1992 when it expanded from housing only the seventh and eighth grades to include the sixth grade.
The Daytime
The monthly newspaper of Day middle school,
The Daytime, has won a national competition, the
Columbia Scholastic Press AssociationThe Columbia Scholastic Press Association was founded in 1925 to create a standard of success for academic journalism for the United States' high school and universities...
Gold Crown Newspaper award (middle school division) for nine years in a row, from 2001 - 2009.
Miscellany
Mindy Goodman, the former 6th grade
FrenchFrench is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...
teacher and school
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
teacher, won a national teaching award in 2002 from the
American Philological AssociationThe American Philological Association , founded in 1869, is a non-profit North American scholarly organization devoted to all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization...
.
She is also a Justice of the Peace and retired after the 2006 school year.
Some current modern day celebrities who have gone to Day include
Matt LeBlancMatthew Steven "Matt" LeBlanc is an American actor, known for his role as Joey Tribbiani in the NBC sitcoms Friends and Joey.-Early life:...
,
Ian McleanIan McLean was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League, .Ian McLean played in Melbourne premiership teams in 1955, 1957 and 1959, and well as the runner-up side of 1954...
and Matthew Doeringer.
On April 28, 2007, the 8th Grade Acting Elective brought home a gold medal from the
Massachusetts High School Drama GuildThe Massachusetts High School Drama Guild is usually known in common parlance as the MHSDG. According to their website, the MHSDG exists "for the charitable and educational purpose of promoting and strengthening excellence, access, and education in the theatrical arts for middle and secondary...
Middle School Drama Festival for their production of the one-act play "Tick Talk" by Lindsay Price, as well as three student honors.
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