Mission
& History
NCS is driven by a faithful desire to equip students to follow Jesus and serve in his kingdom by grounding them in godly wisdom and love and by training them to excel in a life of learning, leadership, and service.
Our Mission
The mission of New Covenant School is to equip students to follow Jesus and serve in his kingdom by grounding them in godly wisdom and love and by training them to excel in a life of learning, leadership, and service.
Throughout New Covenant School's 40 years as a Christian Day-School, it has upheld the same mission for “an education”: to form children in wisdom and love. An educational process that does not intentionally aim at wisdom and love is short-changing children.
We believe wisdom is not about the control or explanation of life, but has more to do with the capacity to live life truly and well: cooperatively, not competitively; in interdependence instead of independence; valuing responsibility more highly than personal choice. Wisdom discerns the important from the urgent, the genuine from the counterfeit, and the long-term good from the short-term gain.​
To be a healthy human being requires us to learn to live in love toward God, who is Love, and toward our neighbor. Like wisdom, love must be intentionally pursued and deliberately developed.​
Our students commute from over 20 towns in the Greater Boston area. Our families come from many different religious backgrounds as well, but all are united in their allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ and to demonstrating the reality of His Kingdom in our daily lives.​
NCS History
Our Elementary School was founded in 1985 after members of Covenant Church met for a year-long season of prayer, fasting, study, and discussion about educating their children in God’s ways of wisdom and love.
In 1987, we developed our “Daniel mission statement” and articulated the school’s Six Words: Courage, Humility, Respect, Integrity, Seeker of God, and Teachability.
In 1996, the school had 60 students and moved from its original classroom in Park Avenue Congregational Church in Arlington to the Covenant Church location at 9 Westminster Ave in Arlington.
In 2009, we founded Highrock Covenant Preschool, a partnership between Covenant School and Highrock Church.
In 2012, we consolidated the preschool and elementary programs into one independent 501(c)(3) corporation under the name New Covenant School, Incorporated.
In 2015, we added a dedicated 4 year old Pre-K program to our school.
​​In 2024, through the generosity of major donations to our school, we moved the school to a new campus at 7 Clematis Road, Lexington.