:Boston Latin Academy

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| motto = 'Vita Tua Sit Sincera' (Latin)

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| enrollment = 1,767 (2018–19){{Cite web|url=http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/profiles/student.aspx?orgcode=00350545&orgtypecode=6|title=Enrollment Data (2021-22) - Boston Latin Academy (00350545)}}

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| streetaddress = 205 Townsend Street

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| rival = John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics & Science{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/22/sports/bailey-belony-sparks-boston-latin-academy-triumph-over-thanksgiving-rival-obryant-fenway-park|title=Bailey Belony sparks Boston Latin Academy to a triumph over Thanksgiving rival O'Bryant at Fenway Park|publisher=Boston Globe|date=November 22, 2022}} formerly Boston Technical High School

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Boston Latin Academy (BLA) is a public exam school founded in 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts providing students in grades 7th through 12th a classical preparatory education.

Originally named Girls' Latin School, it became the first college preparatory high school for girls in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://www.latinacademy.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=445622&type=d|title=About BLA|publisher=Boston Latin Academy|access-date=August 13, 2023}} Coeducational since 1972, the school is located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston and is part of Boston Public Schools (BPS).

History

Boston Latin Academy (BLA) was established on November 27, 1877{{citation|work=Boston Evening Transcript|title=The School Committee|date=November 28, 1877}} as Girls' Latin School (GLS). The school was founded with the intention to give a classical education and college preparatory training to girls. A plan to admit girls to Public Latin School was formed by an executive committee of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women. Henry Fowle Durant, founder of Wellesley College and an advocate of higher education for women,{{cite web|url=https://www.wellesley.edu/about/collegehistory|title=College History |publisher=Trustees of Wellesley College |access-date=December 28, 2018}} was instrumental in outlining the legal route for the school to be established. A petition with a thousand signatures was presented to the School Board in September 1877. The board referred the question to the subcommittee on high schools. Ultimately the subcommittee recommended that a separate school for girls be established. John Tetlow was unanimously elected by the School Committee on January 22, 1878 as its first headmaster.{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=THE SCHOOL SACHEMS|date=January 23, 1878}} On February 4, 1878, Tetlow accepted the first thirty-seven students.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do6me-PBTlw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/do6me-PBTlw |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=History of Girls Latin School 1878-1976 |publisher=YouTube |date=May 19, 2011 |access-date=December 28, 2018}}{{cbignore}}

Girls' Latin School opened on West Newton Street in Boston's South End on February 12, 1878 sharing the building with Girls' High School.{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Opening of the Girls' Latin School|date=February 12, 1878}} The thirty-seven students were divided according to aptitude into three classes; the Sixth, Fifth, and Third class. The first graduating class in 1880 included Alice M. Mills, Charlotte W. Rogers, Vida D. Scudder, Mary L. Mason, Alice S. Rollins, and Miriam S. Witherspoon; all six were accepted to Smith College.

In 1888, Abbie Farwell Brown, Sybil Collar, and Virginia Holbrook decided to create a school newspaper. The name Jabberwock was picked from a list that Abbie Farwell Brown submitted. It was taken from "Jabberwocky", the famous nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass. They wrote to Lewis Carroll in London about the name and received a handwritten letter giving them permission for its use. The Jabberwock is one of the oldest school newspapers in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://blagls.org/main/page/history/C19/ |title=Boston Latin Academy ~ Girls' Latin School Alumni Association |access-date=2013-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120151712/http://blagls.org/main/page/history/C19/ |archive-date=2013-01-20 }}

With the number of students growing each year, in 1898 the school committee moved the first four classes to a building in Copley Square while the rest remained in the older building. In 1907, the school moved into a new building, shared with the Boston Normal School.

Girls' Latin School expanded from approximately 421 students in 1907 to 1,350 students in 1955. The City of Boston had turned over the entirety of the campus to the state in 1952, and when State Teachers College at Boston (the former Normal School) expanded, Girls' Latin School was forced to relocate to the former Dorchester High School for Girls building located in Codman Square.{{Cite news|date=1955-02-03|title=WHEN THERE'S A WILL|pages=14|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433510895/|access-date=2025-05-04|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1952-05-23|title=Haley Opposes Giving State Girls' Latin Land|pages=2|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433463607|access-date=2025-05-04|via=Newspapers.com}}

In 1972, boys were admitted for the first time to Girls' Latin School. The school name was changed in 1975{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Board to expel unruly students|date=February 26, 1975}} and the first graduating class of Boston Latin Academy was in 1977.{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=179 receive diplomas from Girls Latin|date=June 11, 1976}}{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Latin Academy graduates 169|date=June 9, 1977}}

In 1981, Latin Academy moved back into the Fenway area, this time to Ipswich Street, across from Fenway Park. It remained there until the summer of 1991, when it moved again, this time to its present location in the former Roxbury Memorial and Boston Technical High School building, located on Townsend St. in Roxbury.

In 2001, Boston Latin Academy became the first high school to form an official Eastern Massachusetts High School Red Cross Club.{{cite web|url=http://www.redcross.org/ma/boston/youth-programs/red-cross-clubs |title=Red Cross Clubs | Eastern Massachusetts | American Red Cross |publisher=Redcross.org |access-date=2018-04-09}} The club is one of the biggest in the school with over 100 members. Latin Academy's Red Cross Club is also one of the biggest high school Red Cross Club in Eastern Massachusetts.

94% of its graduating students go on to attend four-year colleges. In 2010 Boston Latin Academy received a Silver Medal as one of the top public high schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/listings/high-schools/massachusetts/boston_latin_academy/ |title=Boston Latin Academy: Best High Schools - USNews.com |access-date=2010-05-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401101143/http://www.usnews.com/listings/high-schools/massachusetts/boston_latin_academy |archive-date=2010-04-01 }}

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100px \| 1878–1907 Built from 1869 through 1871, the building was home to Girls' Latin from its inception in 1878 (sharing space with Girls' High and Normal School) until 1907. It was razed in 1960 and a playground now occupies the site. \| 75 West Newton Street, South End {{coord\|42.340558
71.075605}} \|
File:ChauncyHall KingsBoston1881.png \| 1898–1907 In February 1898, 240 students were moved to the former Chauncy Hall School building in Copley Square which had been vacated two years earlier. The remaining pupils continued studies at the West Newton Street location. \| 593–597 Boylston Street, Back Bay {{coord\|42.350283
71.076813}} \| {{Cite news\|date=1898-02-25\|title=Girls' Latin School to Occupy Former Chauncy Hall\|pages=4\|work=The Boston Globe\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/430781196\|access-date=2024-05-02\|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news\|date=1898-02-28\|title=CHAUNCY HALL AGAIN OCCUPIED\|pages=1\|work=Boston Evening Transcript\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735400342\|access-date=2024-05-02\|via=Newspapers.com}}
100px \| 1907–1955 As of 2025 the only building built specifically for Girls' Latin, later becoming part of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \| Huntington Avenue, Fenway {{coord\|42.337444
71.099389}} \| {{Cite news\|date=1907-08-30\|title=GROUP OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN THE FENWAY NEARLY COMPLETED\|pages=9\|work=The Boston Globe\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/431228012\|access-date=2025-05-04\|via=Newspapers.com}}
100px \| 1955–1981 In 1955 the school moved to the former Dorchester High School and Dorchester High School for Girls building in Codman Square, originally completed in 1901. \| 380 Talbot Avenue, Dorchester {{coord\|42.2903
71.0701}} \| {{Cite news\|date=1955-02-22\|title=Girls Latin to Move; School Board Ends Year-Long Debate\|pages=1\|work=The Boston Globe\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433496086\|access-date=2024-05-02\|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news\|date=1901-12-06\|title=Dorchester High, One of the Finest in the Country, Formally Turned Over\|pages=11\|work=The Boston Globe\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/430824083\|access-date=2024-05-02\|via=Newspapers.com}}
100px \| 1981–1991 The school returned to the Fenway area in a former post office garage and afterward an annex of Boston State College. After BLA was relocated this building housed Boston Arts Academy and was later razed in 2019. \| 174 Ipswich Street, Fenway {{coord\|42.346306
71.095139}} \| {{citation\|work=Boston Globe\|title=Latin Academy heading for a new home\|date=August 13, 1981}}
100px \| 1991–present Since 1991, the school has been located in the former home of the Roxbury Memorial High School, and later Boston Technical High School. \| 205 Townsend Street, Roxbury {{coord\|42.316528
71.084306}} \| {{Cite news\|date=1991-09-03\|title=A Wonderful Lesson at Latin Academy\|pages=28\|work=The Boston Globe\|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/439650679\|access-date=2025-05-04\|via=Newspapers.com}}

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| 1878–1907
Built from 1869 through 1871, the building was home to Girls' Latin from its inception in 1878 (sharing space with Girls' High and Normal School) until 1907. It was razed in 1960 and a playground now occupies the site.

| 75 West Newton Street, South End
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71.075605}}

File:ChauncyHall KingsBoston1881.png

| 1898–1907
In February 1898, 240 students were moved to the former Chauncy Hall School building in Copley Square which had been vacated two years earlier. The remaining pupils continued studies at the West Newton Street location.

| 593–597 Boylston Street, Back Bay
{{coord|42.350283

71.076813}}

| {{Cite news|date=1898-02-25|title=Girls' Latin School to Occupy Former Chauncy Hall|pages=4|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/430781196|access-date=2024-05-02|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1898-02-28|title=CHAUNCY HALL AGAIN OCCUPIED|pages=1|work=Boston Evening Transcript|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/735400342|access-date=2024-05-02|via=Newspapers.com}}

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| 1907–1955
As of 2025 the only building built specifically for Girls' Latin, later becoming part of Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

| Huntington Avenue, Fenway
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71.099389}}

| {{Cite news|date=1907-08-30|title=GROUP OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN THE FENWAY NEARLY COMPLETED|pages=9|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/431228012|access-date=2025-05-04|via=Newspapers.com}}

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| 1955–1981
In 1955 the school moved to the former Dorchester High School and Dorchester High School for Girls building in Codman Square, originally completed in 1901.

| 380 Talbot Avenue, Dorchester
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71.0701}}

| {{Cite news|date=1955-02-22|title=Girls Latin to Move; School Board Ends Year-Long Debate|pages=1|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/433496086|access-date=2024-05-02|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news|date=1901-12-06|title=Dorchester High, One of the Finest in the Country, Formally Turned Over|pages=11|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/430824083|access-date=2024-05-02|via=Newspapers.com}}

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| 1981–1991
The school returned to the Fenway area in a former post office garage and afterward an annex of Boston State College. After BLA was relocated this building housed Boston Arts Academy and was later razed in 2019.

| 174 Ipswich Street, Fenway
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71.095139}}

| {{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Latin Academy heading for a new home|date=August 13, 1981}}

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| 1991–present
Since 1991, the school has been located in the former home of the Roxbury Memorial High School, and later Boston Technical High School.

| 205 Townsend Street, Roxbury
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71.084306}}

| {{Cite news|date=1991-09-03|title=A Wonderful Lesson at Latin Academy|pages=28|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/439650679|access-date=2025-05-04|via=Newspapers.com}}

Heads of School

The title of the school's chief administrator was changed from "Headmaster" to "Head of School" during the 2020–2021 school year.

John Tetlow (1878–1910)
Ernest J. Hapgood (1910–1948)
Louis A. McCoy (1948–1957)
Thomas F. Gately (1957–1965)
William T. Miller (1965–1966)
Margaret C. Carroll (1966–1978)
M. Louise Dooley (acting, 1978–1979){{cite web|url=https://www.docdroid.net/FulRwSG/04-05-1979.pdf#page=12| work=Charlestown Patriot via docdroid.net|title=On Honor Roll}}
Christopher Lane (1979–1981){{cite web|url=http://www.classcreator.com/000/8/1/7/13718/userfiles/file/BLA_News_letter_March_1980.pdf|title=Boston Latin Academy Racial-Ethnic Council March, 1980}}{{cite news|work=Boston Globe |title=NEW HOME FOR LATIN ACADEMY; BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY MOVING TO THE FENWAY AREA|date=August 13, 1981}}
Douglas Foster (1981–1983)
Robert Binswanger (1983–1991)
Maria Garcia-Aaronson (1991–2009)
Emilia Pastor (2010–2014; 2014–2015)
Richard Sullivan (acting, 2014)
Troy Henninger (2015–2017)
Chimdi Uchendu (2017–2020) {{small|(acting until 2018)}}
Gerald Howland (acting, 2020–2021)
Gavin Smith (2021–present)

Notable alumni

Known class year listed. Non-graduate alumni noted as NG.

=Academia, science and technology=

Thelma Shoher Baker (1941) – educator and anthropologist{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Diplomas Award 132 Seniors at Boston Girls' Latin School|date=June 13, 1941}}
G. Yvonne Young (later Clark) (1947) – female engineering pioneer working at NASA and Tennessee State University{{cite web |url=http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/images/stories/clark/Yvonne-Clark-2007-SWE-StoryCorps-Interview-Transcript.pdf |title=Yvonne Young Clark and Carol Lawson Interview |work=SWE Storycorps Interviews |publisher=Society of Women Engineers |date=October 26, 2007 |access-date=June 28, 2017 |archive-date=March 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326135740/http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/images/stories/clark/Yvonne-Clark-2007-SWE-StoryCorps-Interview-Transcript.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Helen F. Cullen (1936) – mathematician{{cite web|url=http://blagls.org/main/alumnae_i/outstanding|title=Outstanding Alumnae/i|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203003515/http://blagls.org/main/alumnae_i/outstanding|archive-date=February 3, 2015|url-status=dead }}
Anna Parker Fessenden (1914) – botanist and mathematics educator{{Cite news|date=1914-06-19|title=Girls' Latin High|pages=10|work=Boston Evening Transcript|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93346544/girls-latin-high/|access-date=2022-01-24|via=Newspapers.com}}
Mary Welleck Garretson (1914) – geology teacher, paleontology and stratigraphy consultant.{{cite web |url=https://rock.geosociety.org/net/documents/gsa/memorials/v04/Garretson-MW.pdf|title=Memorial to Mary Welleck Garretson|work=Charles H. Behire, Jr.|publisher= The Geological Society of America, Inc.|access-date=August 20, 2023}}
Deborah Tepper Haimo (1939) – mathematician{{citation |url=https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/haimo.htm|title=Deborah Tepper Haimo|work=Biographies of Women Mathematicians|first=Larry|last=Riddle|publisher=Agnes Scott College|accessdate=2017-10-28}}
Barbara Gould Henry (1949) – taught Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, alone in a classroom guarded by Federal Marshals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/06/27/teaching-ruby-bridges-reflecting-classroom-that-made-civil-rights-history/r0ozyM4GQWzD25g5mzhtqN/story.html|title=Teaching Ruby Bridges|date=June 27, 2014|access-date=July 30, 2015|website=The Boston Globe|last1=Henry|first1=Barbara|last2=Helman|first2=Scott}}
Catherine McArdle Kelleher (1956) – political scientist{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Girls' Latin Graduation Here Tonight|date=June 5, 1956}}
Maud Worcester Makemson (1908) – astronomer, director of Vassar Observatory{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/prominent-faculty/maud-w-makemson.html |title=Maud W. Makemson |encyclopedia=Vassar Encyclopedia |publisher=Vassar College |access-date=June 28, 2017}}
Marie Mercury (1941) – chemist
Martha Jane Bergin (1942) – chemical engineer{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Obituary|date=August 18, 2006}}
Dorothy Quiggle (1922) – MIT Chemical Engineering BSc, MSc, Penn State PhD and professor of chemical engineering.{{Cite thesis |last=Bever |first=Marilynn Arsey |date=1976 |title=The women of M.I.T., 1871-1941 : who they were, what they achieved |url=http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/33804?show=full |access-date=30 May 2022 |website=MIT libraries|hdl=1721.1/33804?show=full |type=Thesis }}
Rose Rosengard (1959) – musicologist{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Memories of a Girls' Latin School grad|date=April 2, 1971}}
Evelyn Shakir (1956) – academic and author{{cite web|title=West Roxbury Women's Heritage Trail: We Will Walk in Her Steps|url=http://bwht.org/west-roxbury/#wr1|website=Boston Women's Heritage Trail}}
Barbara Miller Solomon (1936) – historian, first woman associate dean at Harvard University{{Cite web|last=Ware|first=Susan |title=Barbara Miller Solomon|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/solomon-barbara-miller|access-date=2023-03-30|website=Jewish Women's Archive |language=en}}{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Woman assistant dean at Harvard|date=February 3, 1970}}

=Business=

Nathan Blecharczyk (2001) – co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Airbnb{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2016/09/24/at-boston-alma-mater-airbnb-co-founder-touts-funding/|title=At Boston alma mater, Airbnb co-founder touts funding|date=September 24, 2016|access-date=December 29, 2018|website=Boston Herald|last=Graham|first=Jordan}}
Edith Nason Buckingham (NG) – first woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology at Radcliffe College{{Cite web|last=Tonn|first=Jenna|date=2019|title=The Woman Zoologist Who Found a Home for Her Science in Chicken Farming|url=https://www.ladyscience.com/features/edith-buckingham-zoologist-turned-chicken-farmer-dog-breeder|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-02|website=Lady Science|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429062837/https://www.ladyscience.com/features/edith-buckingham-zoologist-turned-chicken-farmer-dog-breeder|archive-date=2021-04-29}}

=Arts and music=

Eunice Alberts (1940) – opera singer{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/119|title=Alumni Boston Latin Academy (formerly Girls' Latin School)|work=Finalsite|publisher=Boston Public Schools|date=2022|access-date=August 18, 2023}}
Louise Bogan (NG) – poet{{cite web|url=https://english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bogan/life.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325145204/https://english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bogan/life.htm|title=Louise Bogan's Life and Career|archive-date=2016-03-25|url-status=dead}}
Lorraine O'Grady (1952) – conceptual and performance artist{{cite web|url=http://www.lennyletter.com/culture/interviews/a931/lorraine-ogrady-interview/|title=Lorraine O'Grady: From Bureaucrat to Rock Critic to World-Renowned Artist|access-date=2017-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108035552/http://www.lennyletter.com/culture/interviews/a931/lorraine-ogrady-interview/|archive-date=2017-11-08|url-status=dead}}
Josephine Preston Peabody (ca. 1892) – poet and dramatistWoman's who's who of America, 1914–15. p. 540. wikisource.org{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=MRS JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY MARKS DIED EARLY TODAY|date=December 4, 1922}}

=Athletics=

Senda Berenson Abbott (NG) – women's basketball pioneer and member of Women's Basketball Hall of Fame{{cite book| title = A Century of Women's Basketball: from Frailty to Final Four|last1 = Hult|first1 = Joan S.|last2 = Trekell|first2 = Marianna|publisher = National Association for Girls and Women in Sport | location = Reston, Va | year = 1991 | isbn = 978-0-88314-490-9 }}
Barbara Polk Washburn (1931) – first woman to climb Denali (Mount McKinley){{Cite book|title=The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer|last=Roberts|first=David|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|year=2010|isbn=978-0-06-156095-8|location=New York|pages=184, 190–191, 192–204, 226–235}}

=Film, television and theatre=

Florence Fowle Adams (ca. 1881) – dramatic reader, actor, and teacherWillard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Florence_Adelaide_F._Adams A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life]. Moulton, 1893, pp. 5-6.
Susan Batson (NG) – producer, actress and author{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Students Vote 2 to 1 for Constitutional Parley|date=April 2, 1960}}{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=She's got comic flair|date=June 9, 1968}}
Esther Howard (1911) – actress {{cite book|title=Montana Entertainers: Famous and Almost Forgotten|last=D'Ambrosio|first=Brian|year=2019|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=Charleston, South Carolina|isbn=978-1-439-66733-0}}

= Writers and journalists =

Abbie Farwell Brown (1891) – writer{{citation|work=Boston Evening Transcript|title=Girls' Latin School|date=June 23, 1891}}
Uri Berenguer (2001) – radio broadcaster{{Cite web|title="Fenway's Best Players" Broadcasting|url=https://fenwayparkdiaries.com/best%20players/uri%20berenguer.htm|access-date=2023-08-20|website=fenwayparkdiaries.com|publisher=Fred Rapoport}}
Mary Caroline Crawford (1903) – author, social worker and suffragist{{Cite web|title=Mary Caroline Crawford '07 · Suffrage at Simmons |url=https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/suffrage/items/show/93|access-date=2022-08-09 |website=simmons.libguides.com|publisher=Simmons University Archives}}
Norma Holzmann (1926) – writer and poet
Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1904) – Author{{Cite web|url=https://tclf.org/pioneer/theodora-kimball-hubbard|title=Theodora Kimball Hubbard {{!}} The Cultural Landscape Foundation|website=tclf.org|access-date=2020-01-16}}
Mary McGrory (1935) – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist on Nixon's Enemies List.{{Cite news|title=Mary McGrory, 85, Longtime Washington Columnist, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/us/mary-mcgrory-85-longtime-washington-columnist-dies.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2004-04-23|access-date=2016-01-13|issn=0362-4331|first=Robin|last=Toner}}{{Cite web|title=Appreciation: Mary McGrory, Post columnist, dies|url=http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/050704/050704k.php|website=www.natcath.org|access-date=2016-01-13}}
Carol Natelson Newsom (1964) – photojournist{{Cite news|last=Collins|first=Bud|date=2003|title=Carol Newsom, was 54; pioneering tennis photographer|work=The Boston Globe}}
Sarah-Ann Shaw (1952) – journalist and Boston's first Black female TV reporter{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Shaw works to 'involve' people|date=August 22, 1968}}{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Reporter honored for barrier-breaking career|date=May 9, 2016}}
Dorothy West – Harlem Renaissance author{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Dorothy West, at 91; one of last Harlem Renaissance authors|date=August 19, 1998}}

=Government and diplomacy=

Eileen R. Donovan (1932) – Educator, diplomat, and U.S. Ambassador to Barbados{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Hiroshima, Washington--26 years of service|date=February 20, 1969}}{{cite news|title=Eileen Donovan, 81, Former Ambassador|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/25/world/eileen-donovan-81-former-ambassador.html|accessdate=4 February 2020|work=The New York Times|date=December 25, 1996}}

= Judiciary and law =

Patti B. Saris (1969) – Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts{{cite web|title=Ubben Posse Fellow Interviews: Hon. Patti Saris|url=https://www.possefoundation.org/news-and-events/ubben-posse-fellow-interviews-hon-patti-saris|website=The Posse Foundation}}

=Medicine=

Hannah Myrick (1892) – physician, superintendent of New England Hospital for Women and Children{{cite web |url=http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/myrick.html |title=Hannah Glidden Myrick (1871–1973) |work=Women Working, 1800–1930 |publisher=Harvard University Library Open Collections Program |access-date=June 28, 2017}}

= Politicians =

Daniel J. Hunt (1999) – member of Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 13th Suffolk district{{cite web|title=Dorchester's State Representatives team for the next 2 years|url=https://dorchester.comunicas.org/2018/11/12/this-is-the-dorchester-state-representatives-team-for-the-next-2-years/|website=The Dorchester Post|date=12 November 2018 }}
Alice Koerner Wolf (1951) – mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1996 to 2013, representing the 25th Middlesex District.

=Activists=

Ruth Batson (1939) – civil rights activist, executive director of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO){{Cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2003/10/29/ruth_batson_leading_figure_in_education_civil_rights/|title=Ruth Batson, leading figure in education, civil rights|last1=Abel|first1=David|last2=Driscoll Jr.|first2=Edgar J.|date=October 29, 2003|website=archive.boston.com|access-date=2019-01-17}}{{cite web|title=Ruth Batson's high school graduation portrait|url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvgroup12241/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:3738337/catalog|website=Fourteen portraits of Ruth Batson|publisher=Harvard University Library|accessdate=October 18, 2016}}
Ellen Swepson Jackson (NG) – pioneer of Boston school desegregation{{cite book |url=https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:45172382$1i |publisher=Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College |title=Black Women Oral History Project: Interview with Ellen Jackson |date=1968 |pages=ii-vii}}{{citation|work=Boston Globe|title=Diplomas Awarded to 315 at Dorchester High School|date=June 8, 1954}}

=Other=

Ida Shaw Martin – Founder of the Delta Delta Delta sorority{{cite web|title=

Happy Birthday Sarah Ida Shaw Martin!|url=https://www.franbecque.com/happy-birthday-sarah-ida-shaw-martin/|website=franbecque.com|date=7 September 2013 |publisher=Fran Becque|accessdate=August 20, 2023}}

Athletics

Latin Academy offers a wide variety of sports. The team nickname is Dragons, analogous to the original school mascot the Jabberwock.

Baseball
Basketball (boys)
Basketball (girls)
Cheerleading
Football
Indoor Track
Hockey (boys)
Hockey (girls)
Outdoor Track
Soccer (boys)
Soccer (girls)
Softball
Swimming
Tennis (boys)
Tennis (girls)
Track
Volleyball (boys)
Volleyball (girls)
Wrestling

References

External links

[http://www.latinacademy.org Boston Latin Academy official website]
[https://www.glsaa.org/ Girls' Latin School Alumnae Association]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070202212026/http://boston.k12.ma.us/schools/RC615.pdf Boston Public Schools' Profile PDF for Boston Latin Academy]
[http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1079664&srvc=rss]
[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/9367 Records of the Girls' Latin School/Boston Latin Academy Association, 1883-2017: A Finding Aid.] [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/4996 Papers of Lucile Lord-Heinstein, 1895-1977: A Finding Aid.] [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
[https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/5489 Papers of Natalie Walker Linderholm, 1900-1984: A Finding Aid.] [https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.