Newton South High School

Newton South High School is one of two public high schools in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, United States, the other being Newton North. History and student life By the late 1950s, Newton's sole public high school, Newton High, grew to 3,000 students. Newton built a new school, Newton South, in the Oak Hill neighborhood in 1960. The school is organized into four student houses—Cutler, Goldrick, Goodwin, and Wheeler—each with a student commons. Newton South was the first public high school to create a gay–straight alliance in the United States in the early 1990s. Newton South features two award-winning student newspapers, Denebola and The Lion's Roar.