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Top 20 Best Massachusetts Nonsectarian Private Schools (2025)

For the 2025 school year, there are 480 nonsectarian private schools in Massachusetts. You can also find more religiously affiliated schools in Massachusetts.

The nonsectarian private schools in Massachusetts include Middlesex School, Tabor Academy, and Belmont Hill School.

Milestones Day School Photo - Milestones Day School

Fusion Academy Newton Photo - Classes at Fusion are one-to-one: one student and one teacher per classroom. Students have different teachers for different subjects, and teachers act as mentors in the one-to-one setting.

Fay School Photo - Fay School is located on a 66-acre campus 25 miles from Boston in Southborough, Massachusetts, and is the oldest junior boarding school in the United States. Fay currently serves students in Kindergarten through grade nine, with an optional boarding program starting in grade seven.

Commonwealth School Photo - Two blocks from Copley Square, nestled in a pair of brownstones in Boston's Back Bay, the feeling of family persists at Commonwealth, and its location gives students unparalleled access to Boston's resources, fostering meaningful scholarly research, independent projects, and community service.

Bay Farm Montessori Academy Photo - Our Children`s House preschool/pre-k, kindergarten classrooms accommodate children in mixed-age classrooms that provide a safe, stimulating, nurturing, educational, and social foundation for future success.

Tabor Academy Photo - Tabor has 4 docks and over 140 "things that float" including a 115-foot double masted schooner that serves as a research vessel, sail boats, crew shells, and more.

Apple Orchard School Photo - Based on Allandale Farm, Apple Orchard students spend much of their time outside: running in fields, feeding the chickens, caring for our barn animals, walking our goats, climbing pudding stone, building tree forts, sledding, stomping in puddles and playing in the mud.

Delphi Academy of Boston Photo - Small class sizes, big thinkers & challenging environment. Caring faculty provide personal, one-on-one attention for every child. Over 40 years of educational experience and success.

The Sage School Photo - Sagers consistently show an environmentally and community-minded spirit. In Spring 2021 Sage installed "Sprout," a solar tracker that was gifted by faculty and staff of the past and present. The student-led group, Service @ Sage, also works year round to host food drives and other acts of community service.

Fusion Academy Burlington Photo - Classes at Fusion are one-to-one: one student and one teacher per classroom. Students have different teachers for different subjects, and teachers act as mentors in the one-to-one setting.

Kingsley Montessori School Photo - Elementary students exploring a geography work. A key component of the Kingsley mission is raising empathetic global citizens-students who care deeply for the world and work together to improve it.

Kindercare Learning Center Photo - Peabody KinderCare

Touchstone Community School Photo - Meaningful Work

Little Theatre School Nursery And Kindergarten Photo - Our Classroom

Wilson-kindelan School Photo - Wilson-Kindelan School welcomes you!

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