Website: Pollard Middle School Project
Needham Public Schools and the Town of Needham have created a website dedicated to the Pollard Middle School Project. The site contains an extensive amount of information about the project and process, including:
Supporting Information
- School Master Plan Pollard Update 2025
- Needham Public Schools Performance Report
- Needham Arts Culture Action Plan
- Town of Needham / Needham Public Schools Theater Sound & Light Study
- NPS Performing Arts Facilities and Support Study
- Portrait of a Needham Graduate
- 08/25 – Pollard Auditorium Audit, Theater Projects
- 11/20/25 – ACT Committee Letter to the “All Boards Summit- 11/24”
- 12/09/25 – Needham Council for Arts & Culture “A Letter of Strong and Urgent Support for the Inclusion of a 750-Seat Community Auditorium in the Pollard Middle School Reconstruction Project”
- 12/10/25- Lexington approves new $660 million High School.
Press Coverage
The Needham Observer and The Needham Channel are both providing coverage of the Pollard Middle School Project and the state of Needham’s performing spaces:
- Pollard project offers Needham chance to prioritize performing arts (Needham Observer, 10/22/25)
- Designer chosen for Pollard project (Needham Observer, 5/28/25)
- Pollard plans continue on fast track (Needham Observer, 11/13/24)
- Performance space upgrades just the beginning (Needham Observer, 5/22/24)
- School Auditorium Project’s Dramatic First Act (The Needham Channel, 1/25/24)
- Pulling back the curtain on performance spaces (Needham Observer, 10/4/23)
- Students: School Stages Don’t Make the Grade (The Needham Channel, 4/13/23)
Student Performing Arts
NHS Friends of Music (FOM) is a parent-led booster club for performing arts with a mission to support and enrich in-class and extracurricular music and theater programs while championing the successes of the students these activities and programs benefit. The FOM website is great resource to learn about more about student performing arts.
In addition, student performances receive frequent press coverage due to town-wide interest. A sampling of recent coverage:
