Cotting School Campus
Cotting School moved from St. Botolph Street in Boston to its current location, on Concord Avenue in Lexington, in 1988. Our 14-acre campus includes a 90,000 square foot main school facility, Carmichael House, Carl More House and the Mary Perry Building.
In 2021, we celebrated the addition of our new Campus Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. This 25,000 square foot state-of-the-art addition houses a full, regulation-sized gymnasium for basketball and other sports, an ADA-compliant candlepin bowling alley, a fitness center and a two-story, fully accessible rock-climbing wall. It also offers two new classrooms for performing and visual arts, music, filmmaking, photography and other arts programs. A new social studies classroom on the lower floor provides extra space for teaching and learning.
Additional renovations to the main school building were completed in 2022. This included a significant upgrade to the Kiva, Vocational/Occupational Therapy Skills Lab, Elise R. Wallace Learning Commons, classrooms and hallways. In addition, Health Services expanded and the former gymnasium was transformed into a spectacular OT/PT area.
In the spacious new OT/PT area, therapists can avoid distractions and really spread out while working with students.
Our gymnasium has become a gathering spot for the Cotting community, whether it’s to cheer the Falcons on at a basketball game, celebrate graduation or enjoy our annual Play It Forward fundraiser.
The Elise R. Wallace Learning Commons is a versatile space used for events, meetings, professional development, group learning and in-house vocational projects.
The Cotting Campus Center looks particularly welcoming lit up at night. (Photo by Andy Caulfield)
Each spring, students have the opportunity go up our fully accessible rock climbing while getting cheered on by their classmates. (Photo by Andy Caulfield)