As a child, President John F. Kennedy attended Edward Devotion School (known as “Devo”), a public elementary school in Brookline, Massachussetts from kindergarten to third grade. He attended Noble and Greenough (known as “Nobles”), a prep school in Dedham, Massachussetts, for third and fourth grades. After Nobles, JFK attended Riverdale Country school, a prestigious private school in the Bronx borough of New York City, from fifth to seventh grades.