The Neighborhood
The Saint James Court Homeowners’ Association has been created for the purpose of providing for the maintenance, common utilities & landscaping, and to provide for the control of drainage serving St. James Court, a private way. A yearly Homeowners’ Association fee will be assigned to each of the 4 homes on the street. Mail delivery, snowplowing and trash removal will be provided by the Town of Belmont at no additional charge.
About Belmont
Now known as “The Town of Homes,” the leafy 4.6 square mile suburb of Belmont was once a major agricultural hub serving the Greater Boston area, however, by the mid-20th Century, Belmont became a primarily residential community which has served as home to many artists, authors, educators, physicians, and scientists. Today, Belmont remains popular among professionals who work in the Cambridge and Boston area.
Belmont currently has four elementary schools (K-4) all of which offers full-day kindergarten, a grade 5-6 Upper Elementary School, and a new Junior/Senior High School, all of which are considered among the top-performing public schools in Massachusetts. As population demographics change, Belmont has invested in a long-term plan to restructure and build to accommodate increased student enrollment, including constructing a new Belmont Junior/Senior High School on the BHS current site. Belmont public school data can be viewed here.
The town is also home to private educational institutions Belmont Day School and Belmont Hill School and is in close proximity to many additional private schools in the area, including Carroll School, Gann Academy, Saint Agnes School/Arlington Catholic High School, Minuteman, International School of Boston, Buckingham, Browne & Nichols (BB&N) and Shady Hill School.
Belmont Center, Cushing & Waverly Squares are all are flush with locally-owned restaurants and shops and provide public transportation via bus, trolley and commuter rail into Harvard Square and North Station. There are several parks, playgrounds and conservation land in town, from the Grove Street Playground near Fresh Pond to the Mass Audubon’s Habitat Education Center and Wildlife Sanctuary and Beaver Brook Reservation along the Waltham and Lexington line, brimming with open fields, woodlands, ponds and several miles of trails.
