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Since it separated from Haverhill High School in 2022, the alternative school Gateway Academy has moved to the former St. James School and instructs around 130 students, though Principal Brian Edmunds said he expects the number to continue growing. The School Committee moved the Haverhill Alternative School and Therapeutic Education Assessment Center out of the building in 2019. With the district overcrowded, Superintendent Margaret Marotta called the school underused, serving 80 students in two special education programs when it could house up to 350 mostly middle-school age children. Students from the John C. Tilton School started there that fall.