Malden has 5 public elementary/middle schools, a high school, and a public preschool. The website for these is:www.malden.mec.edu. The elementary school was originally in the Chester W. Holmes school, but then was split into the five new public schools:Linden School, Beebe School, Forestdale School, Salemwood School, and Ferryway School. The Holmes school is now the Early Learning preschool.
Approximately 30 park sites throughout the city provide a variety of recreational facilities including tennis courts, basketball courts, playgrounds and ballfields. Other sites include a 400-meter synthetic running track at Macdonald Stadium; 56 acres (23 ha) of the Middlesex Fells Reservation; the 25 acre (10 ha) Fellsmere Pond; a DCR-owned and operated swimming pool; a 30,000 square feet (2,800 m²) fieldhouse built under the new school rebuilding plan; the state-of-the-art Malden YMCA finished construction in early 2007; and Pine Banks Park, operated by a Board of Trustees with equal representation by the cities of Malden and Melrose.


