Shestarted at three months. On her first birthday she said "agua" before she said "water." We didn't teach her that. The school did, simply by living in three languages every day.
Maria Santos
Hingham + Norwell
South Shore, MA
Est. 2004
An immersive education pathway,
from three months through sixth grade.
English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Every day, every year, across our two campuses on Boston's South Shore.
02 / By the numbers
A small school, measurably different.
Twenty-two years on Boston's South Shore. Two campuses. Three languages. Every choice in the building was made with the same patience.
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Faculty with a Bachelor's degree or higher
credentialed across both campuses
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Students enrolled, infant through 6th grade
Hingham and Norwell campuses
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Average class size, JuniorK through 6th grade
capped intentionally small
0:1
Student-to-faculty ratio in Early Global Education
infant and toddler programs
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ZIP codes represented across our families
South Shore and greater Boston
03 / The Pathway
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Early Global Education · Infants Our youngest learners hear English, Spanish, and Mandarin from the very first weeks of life. Trilingual immersion the way other infants learn to babble.
04 / The SELA difference
Three languages, one belonging.
Across two campuses, twenty-two years, and every age from three months through sixth grade, every child here is known by name.
05 / In their words
What our families say.
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Wetoured eight schools. SELA was the only one where I watched a six-year-old lead morning circle in her second language while the adults stayed quietly out of the way. That is the room I wanted my kid in.
Sarah Chen
WhatI love isn't the languages, though they're remarkable. It's that the teachers know him as a kid who happens to be learning in three of them. He is the child first.
Priya Anand
An invitation
Come walk our hallways.
Open Houses, small-group tours, and quiet visits during a normal school day. Pick the pace that suits you.
07 / Experience SELA
See our community in action.
Open House
Sat · Oct 18 · 9:00 AM
Fall Open House at Hingham. Meet the Heads of School.
Tour classrooms in session, meet leadership, and stay for coffee with current families.
Register
School Tour
Wed · Nov 5 · 10:00 AM
A small-group walk through Early Global Education at Norwell.
A guided visit through infant, toddler, and JuniorK rooms with our Director of Admissions.
Reserve a spot
Community
Fri · Dec 12 · 5:30 PM
Winter Lights. A trilingual evening of songs from every grade.
An hour of songs in English, Spanish, and Mandarin. Hot cocoa and cookies after.
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