Rich Heritage of North End Innovation School

The history of the North End's Eliot Innovation School is like so much else in the neighborhood -- scintillating.

The Eliot is part of the Boston school system and educates about 400 students in surrounding neighborhoods.

To become an Innovation school, Massachusetts requires a degree of autonomy and flexibility modeled after Boston’s pilot school program with the expected result being better school performance and student achievement.

The oldest continuously run school in Boston, the Eliot opened as the North Writing School in 1713. After merging with the North Latin School decades later, it was renamed the John Eliot School after the pastor of the North Church.

The school educated the likes of Paul Revere and Samuel Adams in the 18^th century, and served as a meeting place for the women’s suffrage movement in 1917.