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Winchester has five elementary schools (Ambrose, Lincoln, Lynch, Muraco, and Vinson-Owen), one middle school (McCall Middle School), and one high school (Winchester High School). Winchester provides a quality educational environment that is reflected in their MCAS scores.
Winchester has two stops on the MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line: Wedgemere and Winchester Center. The stops are in easy walking distance of one another. The latter is much closer to the town center, hence the name.
There are bus lines going through Winchester to adjacent communities such as Medford, Arlington, and Cambridge. Bus route #134 runs between North Woburn and Wellington Station on the MBTA's Orange Line near Revere/Malden. Bus route #350 runs from the Burlington Mall to Alewife station in Cambridge on the MBTA's Red Line. A commuter express bus runs from Cummings Park in Woburn to Boston during rush hours. Nearby Anderson/Woburn Station off I-93 (Commerce Way exit) has Logan Express shuttle bus service to Boston's Logan Airport every 30 minutes and free shuttle service to Manchester Airport for ticketed passengers every two hours.
The commuter rail from Lowell goes to Boston's North Station where one can connect with the "T", Boston's subway system.
There is no municipal trash pickup in Winchester. For 2007, residents pay $175 per family annually for the first passenger car sticker permit ($30 for a second and third car permit) for the right to drop off their trash at the town transfer station, commonly called "the dump."
The facility is a "Transfer Station" rather than a "dump" because trash is not disposed of at the site; rather the town pays to have it trucked off-site for incineration or dumping. However, residents prefer to call it a dump for ease in conversation and to express their real thoughts about the "transfer station." It costs the town as much to operate the dump as it would cost to provide curb-side trash pickup, but the Selectmen decided that the social interaction of citizens at the site outweighed the convenience of a more conventional trash service.