"Junior Boarding Schools"

Hillside School’s New Academic and Health Center Features Green Technology

Hillside School joins a growing roster of schools incorporating energy efficient green technology into their newest generation of buildings. The common thread among these schools is a growing dedication to environmental responsibility and stewardship.
Hillside’s Academic and Health Center features “specially tinted glass to better manage solar heating throughout the building; the implementation of recycled materials [...]

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Cardigan Mountain School: Personalized Education through the Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills

Update: For those interested in learning more about the program, checkout my podcast, Cardigan Mountain School Introduces PEAKS, with Cardigan’s Brian Beale, Associate Director of Admission, & Ryan Feeley, English Teacher & Summer Session Director.
During a visit to Cardigan Mountain School (an all-boys, junior boarding school in Canaan, NH),  I saw a school in the [...]

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Fay School Builds for the Future

With planning a $43 million campus expansion, ground breaking on the project and his successor in place, Fay School’s headmaster Stephen White has decided to call it a career. He leaves Fay at the end of this month with Robert Gustavson from the Fenn School taking the Fay reigns.
Fay acquired the former Kidder estate which [...]

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Junior Boarding Schools for LD students

Most people are not aware of the fact that there are a number of boarding schools that serves the needs of boys and girls of middle school age (10-15). Some of these schools are for high achieving, highly motivated students; others are for children who struggle with some aspect of the learning process and for [...]

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The Junior Boarding School Niche

Junior boarding schools occupy a quiet niche in the boarding school spectrum.  As the moniker divulges, these schools educate younger students- usually grades 5-9 – in a boarding school environment.  Like their brethren working with older students, each boarding school brings a unique setting and perspective to education.  Environments and programs for all types of [...]

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