Sports
Arts & music
STEM
Camps
After-school & life skills
Affordability
Fee waivers, sliding scales and scholarships published by the organizations that run these programs — each with who is eligible and the page that decides it. Nothing here is estimated from a family's income, and a program with no aid published simply does not appear. A few are awards toward college rather than help with a program fee; those are labelled College scholarship.
8 schemes serve Norwood families.
Families who have financial difficulty may request to pay in installments or apply for financial assistance at the Norwood Recreation Department toward its summer programs; a Norwood Recreation scholarship application form is published.
A Norwood High School student-athlete must pay an annual user fee set by the School Committee, but no student is excluded from athletic participation due to financial hardship; a written waiver request must be submitted to the Athletic Director before the season starts.
All Norwood students receive free breakfast and lunch daily under the USDA Community Eligibility Provision; no free/reduced-price meal application is required, and other programs may offer their own discounts at the administrator's discretion.
$1,000 scholarships for graduating seniors who reside in Norwood and who demonstrate academic achievement, community involvement and extracurricular activity, with financial need also considered; applications are due by May 31 of the graduation year and awards are paid after the first post-secondary semester.
Volunteer-run food pantry that serves only Norwood and Westwood, MA residents (about 350 families); open every Saturday 9:00am-11:40am at 150 Chapel Street, Norwood, and new clients may sign up on Saturday morning.
Federal- and state-funded preschool program at 275 Prospect Street, Norwood for children ages 2.9 to 5 years, provided at no cost to income-eligible families.
State subsidy that pays child care and out-of-school-time providers directly for Massachusetts families who meet the program's service-need and income rules (income up to 85% of State Median Income); families pay a parent fee based on family size and income and many families pay nothing.
Provides clothing with dignity and respect to the Norwood community; residents request clothing through the church's online request form.
What’s new
Registration openings, deadlines and published dates for programs in Norwood, taken from the providers’ own pages. Nothing here is a deadline we worked out — where a source does not state a date, it says so.
When providers say registration opens and closes.