BOARDING SCHOOLS

Kimball Union Academy offers a richly designed environment of intellectual growth and exploration. We layer intentional challenges into each student’s experience as they uncover intellectual pursuits, new ideas, and discussions that will help them write their own narrative. Our goal is to empower students to develop the knowledge, voice, and character to find purpose in life and make an impact in the world.

The Putney School is a progressive school that believes people learn best by doing. Our students learn the art and skill of self-motivation and self-direction. They discover issues, actions and concepts they care about, and generate ideas they want to share with their communities and beyond. Our students receive an experiential education on a serene, picturesque and sustainable campus with a working farm.

Proctor Academy students graduate understanding the values of honesty, compassion, respect, and responsibility, proceeding with confidence and with strategies to become life-long learners and thoughtful contributors to their communities. Our diverse programs and experiential approach to education develop creative, resilient, and knowledgeable problem solvers who take responsibility for their own learning.

Cushing Academy is recognized as a unique educational setting whose faculty, staff, and facilities exist to nurture the optimal growth of students with a range of talents, abilities, and interests in a supportive, diverse, and community-oriented environment that promotes and values intellectual challenge, the arts, athletics, and cultural competence.

Brewster Academy is an elite boarding school without the elitism: an intellectually diverse and academically challenging community that nurtures curiosity, confidence, collaboration, and character in preparation for lives of meaning and accomplishment. Brewster is the way education should be: the perfect balance of academic and emotional development in a place where all can do their best without having to best each other.

The Marvelwood School is intentionally sized to facilitate close connections. Our school takes pride in the purposeful planning of academic, extracurricular, residential, and social initiatives that promote open communication, foster meaningful relationships, and provide a true sense of belonging.

The Darrow School is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student’s individual talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. This mission is accomplished through our active curriculum, which is rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, individually focused, and combines innovative classroom instruction with project-based learning, and environmental consciousness.