Newton South High School

By the late 1950s, Newton's sole public high school, Newton High, grew to 3,000 students. Newton built a new school, Newton South, in the Oak Hill neighborhood in 1960.^[3] The school is organized into four student houses—Cutler, Goldrick, Goodwin, and Wheeler—each with a student commons.^[3]

Newton South was the first public high school to create a gay–straight alliance in the United States in the early 1990s.^[4]

Newton South features two award-winning student newspapers, Denebola and The Lion's Roar.^[5]

U.S. News & World Report ranked Newton South as the 664th-best high school in the country and 20th-best in the Massachusetts in its 2020 rankings.^[6]

The school is part of the Newton Public School District.

Public attention

The school gained notoriety in 2002 for its "Senior Scavenger Hunt",^[7] a student-organized contest that featured theft, vandalism, illegal drug use, and various sexual acts committed by the graduating seniors in exchange for points.^[8]

On February 8, 2007, the Newton South STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition chapter organized a Darfur Benefit Concert with the well known band, State Radio, raising over $23,000 for Save the Children and the Genocide Intervention Network.^[9]

Newton South competes in the DCL (Dual County League).^{[citation needed]}

Awards and recognition

Newton South was named Massachusetts's top athletic program by Sports Illustrated in 2009.^[10]

• Josh Altman, class of 1997, real estate agent on Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Mr. Altman says that the Altman Brothers — the siblings’ real estate group at Douglas Elliman — sells more than $1 billion in real estate each year. ^[11]“The show didn’t make us,” he said. “We made the show.”^[12]
• Nili Brosh, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter^[13]
• Veronica Burton, class of 2018, professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association
• Marisa Catalina Casey, class of 1997, co-author of Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption, is the founder and executive director of the arts education nonprofit Starting Artists, Inc. located in Brooklyn
• Geoffrey Gray, class of 2015, American-Israeli professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Marin Hinkle, class of 1984, actor for Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and CBS's Two and a Half Men
• Darvell Huffman, class of 1986, former NFL player for the Indianapolis Colts
• Alex Karpovsky, class of 1993, actor for HBO's comedy-drama Girls and Amazon's Homecoming^[14]
• Caroline Kaufer, class of 1980, software executive and philanthropist
• John Krasinski, class of 1997, filmmaker and actor for NBC's comedy The Office, A Quiet Place, and A Quiet Place Part II^[15]
• Ben Kurland, class of 2002, an actor in The Artist, which won five Academy Awards
• Bill Lichtenstein, class of 1974, Peabody Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, radio producer
• Robert C. Lieberman, class of 1982, American political scientist and former provost of the Johns Hopkins University
• Jonathan Mann, class of 1965, World Health Organization chief against AIDS
• Chris Morocco, class of 1998, American chef and YouTube personality^[16]
• Roger Myerson, class of 1969, was one of the three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007 "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory"^[17]
• Hari Nef, class of 2011, transgender actress, model, and writer. Debuted at New York Fashion Week Spring 2015^[18]
• B. J. Novak, class of 1997, co-executive producer, writer, and actor for NBC's comedy The Office^[15]
• Joe Rogan, class of 1985, TV host of Fear Factor, The Man Show, Joe Rogan Questions Everything, The Joe Rogan Experience podcast^[15]
• Eli Roth, class of 1990, film director, producer, writer, and actor. Co-starred with Novak in Inglourious Basterds^[15]
• Jason Solowsky, class of 1995, film composer, guitarist and pianist. Composed music for over 100 films^[19]
• Bronze Age Pervert, class of 1998, author of Bronze Age Mindset.^[20]

• Official website