The Mead School respects children.  We recognize, honor and enhance the individual characteristics, cognitive styles and educational passions of each child.  The Mead School is dedicated to preserving and stimulating the innate curiosity of each child.  We foster academic, social and emotional growth, and encourage honest and responsible relationships.

A personally meaningful life presupposes self-knowledge, personal responsibility, life-long learning, empathy, respect for the community and an understanding of the world at large.  To promote these qualities, we offer a rich and culturally-sensitive curriculum that includes personal goal-setting, self-assessment and responsible decision-making.  The Mead School is committed to nurturing and sustaining a diverse and inclusive community, and, by doing so, we help our students to experience a diversity of perspectives, to imagine possibilities and to become responsible members of the community.

As a progressive school, The Mead School integrates the expressive arts with traditional academic subjects.  Supporting the individual development of each student, our program emphasizes seven essential skills:  to act, to express, to think, to receive, to imagine, to intuit and to respect.

By respecting the child and providing a stimulating environment with a forward-thinking and engaging program, The Mead School nurtures in each child the power to create a personally meaningful life.