Our School

Welcome to the Atrium School. We are in our fourth year at our new home in East Watertown.  We love our new, environmentally- friendly campus. Please drop by for a visit. We are an easy journey from Cambridge, Boston, and the northern and western suburbs.

We are a progressive school, which means that we value the social development of children as much as we do their cognitive and academic growth. We believe that getting into things deeply and meaningfully is more important than knowing a little about a lot. Our students become good at working on teams, valuing diversity, multi-tasking, thinking creatively and critically, and showing what they know and understand in a myriad of powerful ways.

At the Atrium we think of the children, parents and faculty, all as learners. 

We commit time and resources to teacher development.  We understand the need, no matter how long or short a time a teacher has been teaching, to immerse ourselves in the study of best practices as educators.

Atrium is a school with interesting traditions: we have an open assembly every Friday where we celebrate what is going on in our classrooms, what is happening with the seasons around us, special visitors and friends, and we sing from our own songbook in a variety of languages. We honor our own special days and seasons like the harvest, the Winter Solstice, the arrival of spring, and our own closing of the academic year. Atrium children learn to be flexible and adaptable, and our graduates go on to large schools, small schools, competitive schools, and magnet schools, public schools and private schools, as we believe that the skills children learn at the Atrium will equip them well for life, as well as for the next school.