Cabot School Set To Reopen With Humpty Dumpty In Place In Newton

NEWTON, MA — A familiar face is back at the Cabot School. After a nearly two-year renovation, a spruced up Humpty Dumpty, the cement sculpture that sat on a wall outside the old school building for decades, was unveiled Tuesday during a ceremony.

Now, teachers and staff are just making the finishing touches at Cabot ahead of Sept. 3.

The Cabot School was built in 1929 and an addition was built in 1956 that added four classrooms and the gym. But by 2016 teachers had offices in closets and the population had outgrown the building and the gym.

The Massachusetts School Building Authority agreed to subsidize about 30 percent of the nearly $50 million two-year renovation replacement project. The rest was funded thanks to a 2013 tax override that also provided funding for the rebuilding of Angier and Zervas elementary schools.

Since 2017, when the project started, students have been holding classes at the district's swing space, the Carr School.

Some were concerned when it came out that the new gym would block the view of the historic building, where the famous Humpty Dumpty sat. In response to that concern, officials promised to move Humpty to a prominent area on campus.

Students from Horace Mann Elementary School will now take a turn at the Carr School. Students at Lincoln-Eliot Elementary School will move into the former Aquinas College campus around 2021.

"Together we go far," reads a student designed mosaic in the front lobby of the new Cabot School.

Previously:

• Newton School Committee Approves Measure to Send All Cabot

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