Welcome to the Mead School! The concept of mastery at Mead goes far deeper than subject matter knowledge and embraces so many other dimensions. Learning here is joyful, reflective, and nurturing, as well as challenging. You will notice on this site the importance we ascribe to specific attributes (our ‘Six C’s’) that we want all our students to develop.  In addition, students are deeply known; they have many of their teachers for consecutive years, and together we form a tightly knit community. 

Our emphasis on learning by experience, the use of outdoor space, the primary role of the arts, and multi-age centers offer a distinctive school day, all of which hearken back to our founding principles, which you will learn about here as well. Our graduates speak to how an emphasis on courageous autonomy made them more adaptable to life after Middle School than many of their peers. 

As life returns slowly to a semblance of normalcy, we are all aware that the world has changed dramatically in ways we are just absorbing. At Mead, we are fortunate in that how we educate children seems extraordinarily aligned with tackling these new challenges.   I encourage you to explore our website and learn more about what makes the Mead experience distinct.

Peter Herzberg, Head of School