Schools & Universities

New Haven Public Schools- New Haven offers Neighborhood and Magnet Schools, so choices are extensive. Westville residents are assigned public high-schools (9-12) through a lottery system. Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Westville area are listed below; other New Haven schools are listed on the NHPS website.

New Haven and the surrounding area offers a wide choice of post secondary and graduate colleges and universities; all of those listed below are within easy walking, biking or driving/public transportation distance from Westville.

Pre-K

Westville Community Nursery School

Head Start Elementary School (PreK-KG), 54 Meadow Street

Abibyoyo Family Cooperative Day Care Inc, 85 Harrison Street

Primary & Middle Schools

Beecher School (K-7), 100 Jewel Street

Davis Street 21st Century Magnet School (PreK-5)

Edgewood Magnet School (K-8)

Sheridan Academy for Excellence (5-8)

St. Aedan RC Parochial School (PreK-8), 351 McKinley Avenue

High Schools

Common Ground High School, Urban Farm, and Environmental Education Center.

Hopkins School, Highly selective college preparatory independent school established in 1660.

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

There are 6 colleges and Universities in the Greater New Haven area. Students, faculty and staff often call Westville Home.

The universities, in order of their proximity to Westville, are:

Southern Connecticut State University- bordering Westville on Fitch Street

Yale University- athletic fields in Westville, main campus in downtown New Haven; new West Campus in West Haven

University of New Haven- over the West Haven line off Forest Road & Rt 1

Albertus Magnus College- Prospect Street, New Haven

Gateway Community College - with campuses in North Haven and Long Wharf, New Haven

Quinnipiac University- Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden

Comments

Edgewood kindergarten accepts 52 children, 26 per class. If a child is kept back then that number is smaller for the entering class. The lottery preference for Edgewood is as follows, except for #1 which does not have to enter the lottery again but affects the number of students accepted to the school for the coming year: 1.) Children retained from previous year, regardless of where they live. 2.) Attendance Zone children with siblings already in attendance at Edgewood 3.) Attendance zone children 4.) Out of attendance zone children with siblings already in attendence at Edgewood 5.) Children from the rest of New Haven. Knowing that Edgewood was my only choice, the advice I was given was to put Edgewood as my first and only choice. If you choose a second school and get in there but not at Edgewood you are not put on a waiting list for Edgewood. (The risk, especially if you are outside the attendence zone, is that you don't get in to any magnet school and your only choice is then the neighborhood school.) Technically, if you are in the Edgewood Attendance zone the only way you would not gain acceptance into Edgewood would be if you did not fill out the lottery forms properly or if there were 52 other attendance zone kids (less the number of retained kids) applying. Our attendance zone goes from Forest Road to Sherman Avenue and covers quite a large area. I have a 1st grader, very soon to be a 2nd grader, and a child heading to kindergarten in the fall at Edgewood. It is a public school and the testing dominates the curriculum but my son has been very happy and there really is a great sense of community at Edgewood that is fostered by the administration and the teaching staff, quite a few of which live within walking distance of the school.

There is a preference for neighborhood children but you must still go through the lottery process. Be sure to put Edgewood as your first choice otherwise the preference goes away. Check with the school about lottery deadlines.

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