Edgewood Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School
is operated by the Stoneham Memorial Seventh-day
Adventist Church. Other churches have special interest
in the school, including the Boston Spanish Seventh-day
Adventist Church, the Boston Temple, the Braintree
Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Framingham Seventh-day
Adventist Church, the Merrimack Valley Seventh-day
Adventist Church, and the Waltham Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
Edgewood had its beginning as the Stoneham Seventh-day
Adventist School in one classroom on the grounds
of the New England Sanitarium and Hospital in approximately
1927. In 1936 the school expanded to two classrooms
and moved to the corner of Pond and Summer Streets
as the church school for the newly formed Stoneham
Church.
Enrollment continued to increase. In 1944 the Stoneham
church purchased the old South School on Gerry Street
from the Town of Stoneham. The four spacious classrooms
were adequate until the expansion of New England
Memorial Hospital in 1966-1969 brought many new Seventh-day
Adventist families to the area.
Recognizing the need for larger quarters, the Stoneham
and New England Memorial Hospital churches joined
together to build the present school. The first full
year in the new building at 108 Pond Street was 1970-71.
In 1975 the school took a new distinctive name:
Edgewood School of Seventh-day Adventists. It stands
as a memorial to the dedicated churches whose members
believe in Christian Education.
In 2000 due to the closure of Boston Regional Medical
Center and the loss of its facility on that campus,
Greater Boston Academy joined Edgewood in the building
at 108 Pond Street.