CityLab is a biotechnology laboratory program for high school students at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Students participate in a wide range of laboratory experiments in the field of biotechnology. Most recently, students performed labs involving bacterial transformation, DNA isolation, amplification, gel electrophoresis and assays.

Montrose School is a member of the French Cultural Center of Boston. The FCC of Boston is a nonprofit organization, lending library and French language institute whose mission is to ensure the vibrant growth of French language and Francophone cultures in New England.

The French Cultural Center's (FCC) library houses the second largest private collection of French books, periodicals, DVDs, and audio and video cassettes available in the US. The FCC's school, a member of the Alliance Francaise network, offers language classes and programs for adults and children. The organization's cultural center showcases the diversity of the francophone culture through lectures, concerts, cooking demonstrations, wine-tastings and art exhibitions. Political and artistic personalities often hold talks at the French Cultural Center, making it the center of French culture in Boston.

The Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild is the Guild's largest event of the year, which annually draws more than 100 participating member schools. 

Now in its ninth decade, this play competition is open to every public, private, and parochial high school in the Commonwealth. Through participation in the Festival, students with interests in acting, directing, and technical theatre gain valuable performance and production experience. 

The Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association. MICCA is dedicated to the study of music through performance.

Their main focus is to create "opportunities for evaluation and expert opinion and feedback to all our participants in a non-competitive setting." These opportunities occur at various festivals, including district and state marching festivals, a concert festival, a choral festival, and a solo and ensemble festival.

Rising high school seniors from all over the country attend this program after a highly selective application process.

MIT's Women in Technology Program gives students an opportunity to take classes that they would not otherwise be offered in high school, such as electrical engineering, computer science and discreet math. It is a program that encourages women to explore their interests in science and technology and open their minds and eyes to the various careers and opportunities in these fields.

The Eastern District is designated by the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, which sponsors various competitive and educational musical activities for some of the most talented young musicians in the state. 

The Eastern District consists of over thirty cities and towns, including dozens of public and private high schools.  It is one of five districts state-wide designated by the MMEA.

For the last several years Montrose students have been the only high school students selected to present papers at the University of Notre Dame's annual conference sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Culture.

Their paper titles include:
Fall 2010 Conference
Caitlin Ronan '11 Social Networking and a Call to Silence among Teens
Fall 2008 Conference
Rebecca Sullivan '09 The Metaphysics of the Family
Ilona Castro '09 Secular Feminism versus Christian Feminism
Fall 2005 Conference
Sarah Blahnik Character in Training: College Sports and the Student-Athlete
Lauren Robbins In Search of True Education
Fall 2004 Conference
Alessandra Bouchard Educating Teens in the Arts to Decrease the Allure of Television
Molly Keefe Teens and Tunes: The Influence of Music on Teen Culture
Fall 2003 Conference
Theresa Keely Teenagers Need to Reclaim Sundays
Alexandra Fox The Christian Feminist Revolution
Fall 2002 Conference
Justine Berti A Reexamination of Leisure
Sarah Smith From 'Having' to 'Being': A Proposal for Reform
Fall 2001 Conference
Mariangela Sullivan Teenagers and the Need for Transcendence
Raquel Frisardi Gifts of the Spirit: An Apologia for Metaphysics in High School

Montrose juniors have been selected to participate in Princeton University's Witherspoon Institute.

Witherspoon Institute's Moral Life and the Classical Tradition Seminar is a week-long program for rising high school seniors interested in the classical philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral life. High school students from around the country apply to participate in this highly selective academic conference at Princeton University.