Westville offers educational opportunities from early childhood to university. Many residents are also engaged in education or research. Check out the rich educational resources in and around Westville!
PRE-K, NURSERY SCHOOLS & CHILD-CARE CENTERS (ages 0-5)
Westville Community Nursery School
Head Start Elementary School (Pre-K-KG), 54 Meadow Street
Abiyoyo Family Cooperative Day Care Inc, 85 Harrison Street, (203) 387-0831
Gwen's Afterschool Daycare, 286 West Rock Avenue, (203) 387-2165 - pick-ups from Edgewood School & Westville Community Nursery School
NH Public Schools operate several early childhood centers and day care centers in the area. Some offer sliding fee scales.
New Haven Public Schools
New Haven offers Neighborhood and Magnet Schools, so choices are extensive. Westville residents are assigned public high-schools (9-12) through a lottery system. Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Westville area are listed below; other New Haven schools are listed on the NHPS website.
PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOLS (K-8, ages 5-13)
Beecher School (K-7), 100 Jewel Street
Davis Street 21st Century Magnet School (PreK-5)
Edgewood Magnet School (K-8), Edgewood Avenue @ Yale Avenue. Neighborhood preference for specific zone within Westville, magnet lottery for others. See NHPS website for neighborhood preference boundary lines.
Residents explain the lottery/neighborhood preference: Edgewood kindergarten accepts 52 children, 26 per class. If a child is kept back then that number is smaller for the entering class. The lottery preference for Edgewood is as follows, except for #1 which does not have to enter the lottery again but affects the number of students accepted to the school for the coming year: 1.) Children retained from previous year, regardless of where they live. 2.) Attendance Zone children with siblings already in attendance at Edgewood 3.) Attendance zone children 4.) Out of attendance zone children with siblings already in attendence at Edgewood 5.) Children from the rest of New Haven. Knowing that Edgewood was my only choice, the advice I was given was to put Edgewood as my first and only choice. If you choose a second school and get in there but not at Edgewood you are not put on a waiting list for Edgewood. (The risk, especially if you are outside the attendence zone, is that you don't get in to any magnet school and your only choice is then the neighborhood school.) Technically, if you are in the Edgewood Attendance zone the only way you would not gain acceptance into Edgewood would be if you did not fill out the lottery forms properly or if there were 52 other attendance zone kids (less the number of retained kids) applying. Our attendance zone goes from Forest Road to Sherman Avenue and covers quite a large area. I have a 1st grader, very soon to be a 2nd grader, and a child heading to kindergarten in the fall at Edgewood. It is a public school and the testing dominates the curriculum but my son has been very happy and there really is a great sense of community at Edgewood that is fostered by the administration and the teaching staff, quite a few of which live within walking distance of the school. Check with the school about lottery deadlines, which usually are in February. You also must register your child for school.
Sheridan Mauro Magnet School (K-8), Fountain Street- Newly renovated and expanded, reopened in 2009.
St. Aedan RC Parochial School (PreK-8), 351 McKinley Avenue
HIGH SCHOOLS
Common Ground High School, Urban Farm, and Environmental Education Center, a Charter School.
Hopkins School, Highly selective college preparatory independent school established in 1660.
Other NHPS High Schools are magnets or citywide.
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
New Haven and the surrounding area offers a wide choice of post secondary and graduate colleges and universities; all of those listed below are within easy walking, biking or driving/public transportation distance from Westville. Students, faculty and staff often call Westville Home.
There are 6 colleges and Universities in the Greater New Haven area. The universities, in order of their proximity to Westville, are:
Southern Connecticut State University- bordering Westville on Fitch Street
Yale University- athletic fields in Westville, main campus in downtown New Haven; new West Campus in West Haven
University of New Haven- just over New Haven city line in West Haven off Forest Road & Rt 1
Albertus Magnus College- Prospect Street, New Haven
Gateway Community College - with campuses in North Haven and Long Wharf, New Haven
Quinnipiac University- Mt. Carmel Avenue, Hamden
