Editing Salem, Massachusetts (section)

===Primary and secondary education===
Public elementary schools include the Bates, Carlton, Horace Mann, Saltonstall and Witchcraft Heights schools. Collins Middle School is located on Highland Avenue.<ref name="profiles.doe.mass.edu">{{cite web|url=http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/search/map.aspx?mode=g&county=Essex&town=347|title=Profiles Search|website=profiles.doe.mass.edu}}</ref>

Horace Mann and [[Salem High School (Massachusetts)|Salem High School]] are located on Wilson Street. The Nathaniel Bowditch School closed in 2018 and the Horace Mann School relocated to their previous location. Salem Academy Charter School and Bentley Academy Charter School are also public schools.<ref name="profiles.doe.mass.edu"/> Private schools are also located in the city, including two independent, alternative schools, The Phoenix School<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://phoenixschool.org/|title=Home|website=The Phoenix School}}</ref> and the Greenhouse School.

In late 2007 and early 2008, the city's public school system garnered regional and even national attention after officials announced a $4.7 million budget shortfall that threatened the jobs of teachers and other staff members. The Massachusetts General Court passed legislation, and residents raised enough money, which averted teacher layoffs. Several dozen support workers were still laid off.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salemnews.com/archivesearch/local_story_036064607.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908191335/http://www.salemnews.com/archivesearch/local_story_036064607.html  |archive-date=2012-09-08 |title=Time line of a crisis » Local News » SalemNews.com, Salem, MA |publisher=Salemnews.com |access-date=2012-11-10 }}</ref> Police were investigating what happened to the money in a search for criminal violations of the law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salemnews.com/archivesearch/local_story_023232714.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909015656/http://www.salemnews.com/archivesearch/local_story_023232714.html  |archive-date=2012-09-09 |title=Schools regroup; cops probe $4.7M deficit » Local News » SalemNews.com, Salem, MA |publisher=Salemnews.com |date=2008-01-24 |access-date=2012-11-10 }}</ref>

Salem also once had a very strong [[Catholic school|Roman Catholic school system]]. Once home to almost a dozen schools, the last school in the city, St. Joseph School, closed in July 2009 after over 100 years of providing Catholic education. St. James High School, St. Chretienne Academy, St. Chretienne Grammar School and St. Mary's School closed in 1971, St. James Grammar School closed in 1972, St. Thomas the Apostle School closed in 1973, St. Anne School closed in 1976, St. John the Baptist School closed in 1977 and St. Joseph High School closed in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_340000315.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120911151231/http://www.salemnews.com/punews/local_story_340000315.html  |archive-date=2012-09-11 |title=St. Joseph School in Salem closing » Local News » SalemNews.com, Salem, MA |publisher=Salemnews.com |date=2008-12-05 |access-date=2012-11-10 }}</ref>