Monument High School

Monument High School
95 G Street
South Boston, MA 02127
(617) 635-9865

Nadia Cyprien, Headmaster

http://boston.k12.ma.us/monument/

Monument High was one of the first small high schools to be created in the Boston Public Schools. Housed in the South Boston Education Complex, Monument combines the

innovation and personal instruction of a small high school with the great extracurricular traditions of the former South Boston High School.

Monument High School, established in 2001, is the first public safety/criminal justice-oriented secondary school in New England. Monument High School offers a standards-based, thematic curriculum that combines core subject areas with innovative criminal justice and public safety courses to prepare students for success in college. The unique public safety and criminal justice focus attracts students interested in becoming lawyers, detectives, criminal psychologist, emergency medical technicians, firefighters, police officers, and other related professionals.

Students take a variety of Public Safety and Criminal Justice pathways courses throughout their high school education, including Introduction to Public Safety, Introduction to Criminal Justice, and First Responders Course team-taught by Boston EMTs. Monument High School develops its public safety and criminal justice pathway by allowing seniors the opportunity to take college level courses and participate in for- credit internships. Last year, 25 Monument students were selected as paid interns at the Boston Fire Department, Boston Police Department, Boston Park Rangers, Boston EMS, United States Coast Guard, Municipal Court and other participating public safety locations throughout Boston. In partnership with the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department and City School's Prison Empowerment Project, students and staff create dialogue about crime and punishment among diverse groups of youth and adults outside and inside the walls of Massachusetts's prisons, and students in these courses tour local prisons.

As of June 2008, the racial breakdown was as follows: 4.7% Asian, 48.2% Black, 25.3% Hispanic, 21.2% White, and 0.6% Native American. Special education services were provided to 26.2% of students. (From the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education)

(Adapted from school website, http://boston.k12.ma.us/monument/ and from the BPS School Profile, http://boston.k12.ma.us/schools/RC673.pdf)