New England Innovation Academy

I attended NEIA for four years as a boarding student. NEIA was a great community where I felt like my second home. The staff and teachers there were so supportive and made my high school experience truly unforgettable. The small class sizes helped me build close bond with my friends and teachers. NEIA encourages students to follow their passions with confidence, knowing that they have skills to succeed. NEIA offers variety of extracurriculars where you can explore your interests. NEIA helped me shape who I am right now.

NEIA's community is unmatched. The students and staff truly connect and build lasting relations beyond students' time at the school.

Our child spent three wonderful years at NEIA. We wanted to stay involved after he graduated so now we're a host family for an international student. She loves being a boarder but when she wants a "home away from home" she knows we're here for her. She spends holidays with us when it isn't possible to travel back home and we go to her events at NEIA to cheer her on. NEIA takes great care of their international students and local host families help make sure the students feel loved and supported. It's also been a great way for our family to stay involved and give back to the school that was so wonderful to our child.

Our older son was a 3 year boarder at NEIA and had an amazing experience. His classes were challenging, he loved residential life and made wonderful friends. NEIA also helped him land internships at Tufts and MIT Media Labs in Taipei and Cambridge. Those are amazing opportunities for a high school student! Also, NEIA has a great relationship with nearby Babson College and their programs helped him grow as a leader and entrepreneur. As an added bonus, our family loves the community. We hope our younger son will also enroll and we look forward to being involved for many years to come. It's a special school with a unique and innovative approach to education. I highly recommend NEIA!

NEIA’s teaching staff are some of the most professional, yet kind educators I have met in my studies. They pushed me to be better each day and I am where I am today because of them.

I attended New England Innovation Academy in 12th grade as a boarding student from Germany, and I often tell my friends I wish I had found this school sooner. While being academically rigorous, NEIA focuses on individualized learning. The small class sizes and nurturing environment allow you to grow without the fear of making mistakes, and the learning feels constant and natural rather than forced. Additionally, the college counseling was exceptional. Everyone in my grade was accepted into incredible schools, including top-ranked universities. We had numerous college visits to explore our options, and having a college counselor who genuinely cared and provided personalized guidance made the stressful application process more manageable. The school offers fun extracurriculars and is very student-centered, allowing students to create clubs and shape their own experience. NEIA challenged me and allowed me to grow in ways I did not expect.

Much of American education optimizes for compliance: sit down, memorize, perform, move on. It rewards right answers over original thinking and produces strong test-takers, not always builders. NEIA was different. It prepared me for volatility.... for tech that doesn’t exist yet and rooms where designers, engineers, founders, and investors all think differently. As a boarding student, I was building, leading, failing (often), and getting coached through it. I transferred from a top-ranked private boarding high school located in Andover MA, and NEIA still asked more of me. You don’t hide or fly low here. Innovation isn’t a class...it’s the culture. You learn IQ and EQ, strategy and design, and how to speak across disciplines. It doesn’t promise comfort. It builds capability.

My son goes to NEIA. We love it because NEIA is a school that truly sees and nurtures every student, with small classes that allow for individual attention, flexibility, and a deep commitment to humanity and growth.