Education

Aerial view of part of MIT's main campus Dunster House, Harvard Higher education

Cambridge is perhaps best known as an academic and intellectual center, owing to its colleges and universities, which include:

Cambridge College Cambridge School of Culinary Arts Episcopal Divinity School Harvard University Hult International Business School Lesley University Longy School of Music Massachusetts Institute of Technology Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Boston

At least 129 of the world's total 780 Nobel Prize winners have been, at some point in their careers, affiliated with universities in Cambridge.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is also based in Cambridge.

Primary and secondary public education

The Cambridge Public School District encompasses 12 elementary schools and 5 upper schools that follow a variety of different educational systems and philosophies.

The 12 elementary schools that offer grades K-5 are:

Amigos School Baldwin School (formerly called the Agassiz School) Cambridgeport School Fletcher-Maynard Academy Graham and Parks Alternative School Haggerty School Kennedy-Longfellow School King Open School Martin Luther King, Jr. School Morse School (a Core Knowledge school) Peabody School Tobin School (a Montessori school)

The 5 upper schools which are physically located in some of the same buildings as the elementary schools offer grades 6-8. They are:

Amigos School Cambridge Street Upper School Putnam Avenue Upper School Rindge Avenue Upper School Vassal Lane Upper School

There are three district public high school programs serving Cambridge students, including the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Outside of the main public schools are other public charter schools including: Benjamin Banneker Charter School, which serves students in grades K-6, Community Charter School of Cambridge, which is located in Kendall Square and serves students in grades 7–12, and Prospect Hill Academy, a charter school whose upper school is in Central Square, though it is not a part of the Cambridge Public School District.

Primary and secondary private education Cambridge Public Library original building, part of an expanded facility

There are also many private schools in the city including:

Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (BACS) Buckingham Browne & Nichols (BB&N) Cambridge Montessori School (CMS) Cambridge Friends School. Thomas Waring served as founding headmaster of the school. Fayerweather Street School (FSS) International School of Boston (ISB, formerly École Bilingue) Matignon High School North Cambridge Catholic High School (re-branded as Cristo Rey Boston and relocated to Dorchester, MA in 2010) Shady Hill School St. Peter School