Ages 11 to 18 · Sixty students a year
Small classes. Serious work.
Twelve to a class, teachers who stay for years, and a programme built on doing real work rather than rehearsing for tests. School the size it should be.
We teach students, not subjects.
Every teacher here knows every student's name by October. We keep the school small on purpose: small enough that nobody disappears in the middle of the room, small enough that a teacher notices the week before a problem becomes one. The work is harder than most schools ask for, and the support is closer. Those two things only sound like opposites.
The programme
What we teach, and what it produces
Lower school, 11 to 14
Writing studio
an essay a week, edited line by line
Mathematics
proof and puzzle before procedure
Workshop
wood, code, and circuits; things that must actually work
Upper school, 15 to 18
Research seminar
a year-long question, defended before the school
Sciences
lab notebooks kept like professionals keep them
Apprenticeship term
eight weeks inside a real workplace, every year
Teachers who stay.
Dr Helen Okafor
Head of school · Physics
Eleven years here; still teaches first-years herself.
Samuel Reyes
Writing
Edits like a magazine editor, grades like a coach.
Ingrid Halvorsen
Workshop
Former naval engineer; nothing leaves her room half-built.
What it costs, plainly.
A third of our students receive aid, from 20% to full. The aid conversation happens before the admissions decision, never after, so no family falls in love with a place they cannot have.