Bold Vision, Bright Future
The next 100 years of innovation at Newton Country Day
2025 marks the 100th anniversary of both St. Madeleine Sophie Barat’s canonization and Newton Country Day’s move to the Towle Estate at 785 Centre Street. Founded in 1880 as the Boston Academy of the Sacred Heart, the school welcomed its first students at 5 Chester Square in Boston’s South End. In 1925, the move to Newton marked a bold new chapter, one that laid the groundwork for the thriving Sacred Heart school we know today. In 1990, the estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is now known as Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. As we honor these milestones, we are just as focused on what’s ahead: a bright and ambitious future rooted in the same Courage and Confidence that brought us to this moment.
Library Transformation Project
The Library has long been the intellectual heart of Newton Country Day, a place for study, reflection, and connection. As learning evolves, so too must the spaces where that learning takes place. Today’s students need environments that foster collaboration as well as quiet focus, spaces that spark creativity, innovation, and critical thinking.
Reimagining the Library is about more than updating a space. It will become a hub that equips young women to thrive as adaptable, confident, and creative leaders.
Made possible by the generosity of benefactors and attendees of Bold Vision, Bright Future, this project will move forward in the summer of 2026. The renewed Library will open its doors in the fall of 2026.
Bold Vision, Bright Future Gala Celebration
Newton Country Day launched the Bold Vision, Bright Future campaign on the evening of October 25, 2025 with a sold-out gala event at the Omni Seaport Hotel in Boston, bringing together the entire community—alumnae, parents, past parents, and friends—to learn more about the bold steps Newton Country Day is taking toward its future.