The Melrose School is a private day school. It offers educational programming for children from kindergarten through eighth grade, as well as preschool programming for 3- and 4-year-olds. The school stresses a core curriculum as well as extracurricular community outreach work. Each student to graduate Melrose must complete at least 25 hours of service. Core classes include foreign language, music, social studies, English, math, science and technology.