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Geoffrey Gray, class of 2015, American-Israeli professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League.Marisa Catalina Casey, class of 1997, co-author of Born in Our Hearts: Stories of Adoption, is the founder and executive director of the arts education nonprofit Starting Artists, Inc.Nili Brosh, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter.Josh Altman, class of 1997, real estate agent on Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles.Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Newton South competes in the DCL (Dual County League). On February 8, 2007, the Newton South STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition chapter organized a Darfur Benefit Concert with the well known band, State Radio, raising over $23,000 for Save the Children and the Genocide Intervention Network. The school gained notoriety in 2002 for its "Senior Scavenger Hunt", a student-organized contest that featured theft, vandalism, illegal drug use, and various sexual acts committed by the graduating seniors in exchange for points. The school is part of the Newton Public School District. News & World Report ranked Newton South as the 664th-best high school in the country and 20th-best in the Massachusetts in its 2020 rankings. Newton South features two award-winning student newspapers, Denebola and The Lion's Roar.

Newton South was the first public high school to create a gay–straight alliance in the United States in the early 1990s. The school is organized into four student houses-Cutler, Goldrick, Goodwin, and Wheeler-each with a student commons. Newton built a new school, Newton South, in the Oak Hill neighborhood in 1960. Newton South High School is one of two public high schools in the city of Newton, Massachusetts, United States, the other being Newton North.īy the late 1950s, Newton's sole public high school, Newton High, grew to 3,000 students. Last updated: May 11, 2019 4 years ago ( )
