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Saugus Facts

Youth programs in Saugus are run by several separate organizations — the municipality, the school district, independent volunteer clubs and private studios. Here is what is actually here, who runs it, and where you register.

Saugus at a Glance

28,619
2020 Census Population
105
Programs in This Guide
29
Organizations
10
Aid Schemes Listed

Saugus is in Essex County, with a 2020 census population of 28,619.

Saugus Public Schools, a local district.

The high school teams are the Sachems, in red, white, competing in the Northeastern Conference.

This guide lists 105 programs from 29 organizations. 36 of them publish either an exact fee or a free claim; 6 are free.

5 Schools

5
Schools
K-12
High School Grades
3
Elementary

Saugus Public Schools, a local district.

Veterans Early Learning Center
PK-1 · 501 students
Pioneer Charter School of Science II
K-12 · 621 students
Run by the Pioneer Charter School of Science II district, not by Saugus's own.
Belmonte STEAM Academy
2-5 · 814 students
Saugus Middle School
6-8 · 616 students
Saugus High
9-12 · 744 students

Names, grade spans and enrollments are the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data for 2024–25. A school run by another district is marked, because that is the one a family has to apply to separately.

Children and campers sitting together on a large boulder at YMCA Camp Hillside, smiling at the camera.

Where You Actually Register

These are the four organizations running the most programs in this guide, with the site each one registers on. Across all 105 listings there are 26 different registration sites, which is the thing worth knowing before you start: there is no single front door.

saugusachemsathletics.com
25 listings in this guide
saugus-ma.gov
16 listings in this guide
sauguspubliclibrary.org
15 listings in this guide
ymcametronorth.org
12 listings in this guide

29 Organizations

105 listings come from 29 separate organizations, and no one of them runs more than a fraction of it. The four biggest are Saugus Public Schools (Saugus Middle High School) (23), Saugus Youth & Recreation Department (15), Saugus Public Library (14), YMCA of Metro North (8).

How the listings split: 61 sport, 15 camps or clinics, and 29 arts, STEM, after-school and life-skills classes.

A large group of Dance Junction students in performance costumes posing together with their teacher

10 Ways to Get Help Paying

10 schemes a Saugus family can actually apply to, each one listed with what it covers, who qualifies and the page that states its own rules. Where a listing itself offers aid, its card carries an Aid available badge and the provider's own words.

The Gaps, Left Visible

Where the research found nothing, this guide leaves the gap visible rather than filling it.

Fees that are not published
36 of the 105 listings say what the provider says about cost, which is often nothing. Where a provider publishes only a weekly or per-session rate, the card carries that rate as text and the program is left out of the budget filter — a weekly rate is not the cost of a season.

What this guide does not claim

No listing here claims an open place. Where a provider publishes a term but no dates, the card says the dates are not published rather than assuming last year's repeat.

Where these facts come from. Population is the 2020 U.S. Census count for the municipality. County, district structure, school names and grade spans, the high-school team name and its athletic league were each read from a public source during this guide's research. Program counts and the registration sites are read from this guide's own record, so they cannot drift from the listings below them.

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Information compiled from the Town of Saugus, Saugus Public Schools and each organization's own published details. Every listing on this site carries the page it was researched from.