Location

Close to Everything

Boston is our campus, and its amenities are unsurpassed. Within close walking distance are Copley Square, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the French Cultural Center. It’s easy to get to the Museum of Fine Arts and State House. Students can often be found just across the street on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, meeting with faculty advisors or taking a break between classes, or one street over grabbing cupcakes or coffee on Newbury. 

As our students pass through Boston, they help shape the city. Boston shapes school life in return, helping our students develop the initiative and ingenuity of city people. Students connect with Boston's world-class scholars, artists, nonprofit agencies, and businesses during our annual Project Week and Senior Projects. Athletes practice and play at fields and facilities across the city. And all ninth-graders take a City of Boston course to familiarize themselves with the town and its history.

Accessible by all manner of public transportation, Commonwealth’s nearest MBTA station is Copley Square. We are a seven-minute walk from Back Bay Station and the Commuter Rail.

  

  

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A Home in the Heart of the City

Our main building, a historic brownstone and architectural gem in Boston’s Back Bay, is full of unique spaces and surprises: classrooms overlooking the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, quiet nooks perfect for studying, modern laboratories, student and alumni/ae art adorning every wall, and, of course, our “Cafegymnatorium.”

We invite you to tour our building virtually, and if you do, we challenge you to look closer: see if you can spot a stained glass window with a man’s face on it, pomegranates on a ceiling, nine skylights, thirteen fireplaces, a mural, a pool cue hidden in a stair railing...

  

The appeal of Commonwealth for me was the fact that it's just so central. It opens a lot of doors just being in the city, and the access that the school gives you, and the trust that the school gives you to take care of yourself and to follow your own direction was really amazing.

Alec Mathur
Class of 2020

  

Where Our Students Come From

Ample transportation options make it easy for students to come to Commonwealth from all over—and outside—the city. Some walk or ride their bikes; others master train schedules and T transfers. The autonomy instils confidence and a sense of independence that’s worth the trip.

Our students commute from about forty-five cities and towns, including:

Arlington
Auburndale
Bedford
Belmont
Boston
Braintree
Brookline
Cambridge
Canton
Chelsea
Chestnut Hill
Concord

Dedham
Dorchester
Encino
Everett
Foxboro
Framingham
Hingham
Hopkinton
Jamaica Plain
Lexington
Lincoln
Lowell

Malden
Marblehead
Medford
Melrose
Milton
Needham
Newton
North Attleboro
Norwood
Quincy
Reading
Revere

Scituate
Sharon
Somerville
Southborough
Stoneham
Watertown
Wellesley
West Roxbury
Weston
Westwood
Winchester
Woburn

  

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