Editing Norwell, Massachusetts (section)

==Education==

Norwell has a school department for its approximately 2,200 students. There are two elementary schools for students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade—the Grace F. Cole Elementary School in the western part of town and the William G. Vinal Elementary School in the east. The Norwell Middle School, near the Town Hall on Route 123, serves grades 6 to 8. It has two teams (sets of teachers) for each grade: Orange (6th), Purple (6th), Green (7th), Gold (7th), Red (8th) and Blue (8th).

[[Norwell High School (Massachusetts)|Norwell High School]] is near Assinippi and serves students from ninth through twelfth grade. All high school and middle school students are provided with iPads by the district for school use.<ref>{{cite web|title=Norwell Public Schools|url=http://norwellschools.org/Domain/1|website=Norwell Public Schools|access-date=October 4, 2014}}</ref> Norwell High School is a competitive school{{cn|date=November 2024}}, known for its academic excellence.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Norwell High's teams are known as the Clippers, and their colors are blue and gold. The school's major rival is Hanover High School, whom the football team plays in their annual [[Thanksgiving Day]] game. At the high school, Norwell is very well known nationwide{{cn|date=November 2024}} for their [[FIRST Robotics Competition|FIRST robotics]] team 348, which consistently performs well and won second place overall at the Florida Regionals in March 2015 in addition to other awards in the past few seasons.{{cn|date=November 2024}} Norwell is also known{{cn|date=November 2024}} for its extremely successful math team{{cn|date=November 2024}} and award-winning{{cn|date=November 2024}} theater company, the Fourth Wall Players. Norwell girls' lacrosse is well known on the South Shore{{cn|date=November 2024}}, having won three [[Division II (Massachusetts)|Division II]] state championships.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Norwell's girls soccer team and boys soccer team also perform consistently well, with the boys team finishing as finalists in the [[Division III (Massachusetts)|Division III]] state tournament in 2017, and the girls soccer team winning their first Division III Massachusetts state title in November 2018. In 2021, both the Girls and Boys soccer teams won the [[Division III (Massachusetts)|Division III]] state championship title.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

There are no private schools in the town. High school students have the option of attending South Shore Regional [[Vocational]] Technical High School in neighboring Hanover free of charge. The nearest college is [[Massasoit Community College]] in Brockton.