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| Breakwater School | |
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| Address | |
| 856 Brighton Avenue Portland, Maine 04102 United States | |
| Coordinates | 43°40′22″N 70°18′51″W / 43.67265°N 70.31415°W / 43.67265; -70.31415 |
| Information | |
| Established | 1956; 68 years ago (1956) |
| Website | school |
Breakwater School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational school in Portland, Maine.
The school currently enrolls up to 180 students from toddler through eighth grade. The sixth through eighth grade program is experiential and integrative, consisting of a series of 6 to 7 week projects completed over the course of the school year.
Breakwater was founded as a day care center, named Playtime Haven, by Frank and El Costa in 1956 after their son recovered from a serious illness. As it grew, it moved to a series of different locations in South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, until 1982 when it purchased its current location in Portland. Since then, the school has also been given a 21-acre nature preserve in nearby Cumberland which it uses regularly for field trips as part of the school's Science curriculum.
The Executive Director is David Sullivan, previously a Teaching Principal at the Brooklin School in Brooklin, Maine, and the Academic Director is Maggie Lyon.
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