Hampshire Country School is a small, family-style boarding school that provides a solid education, a healthy outdoor setting, and an unusual amount of adult attention and structure. It is a place where boys of very high ability who have had difficulty in large, socially complex schools may finally find “their” place.
All students are 7-day boarders, and all faculty live on campus, making this a home-like and comfortable place for the young student who will be living far away from home.
Students may range in age from 8 to 18 and in grade from 3 to 12, but Hampshire Country School is primarily a middle school, and the best entering ages are from 9- to 12-years-old.
Traditional school courses in history, science, English, math, and a foreign language are taught in classes of 3 to 6 students.
Extracurricular activities include hiking, camping, canoeing, recreation-level sports (soccer, tennis, softball, floor hockey, etc.), music lessons, art, and drama. Informal play includes sledding, snow fort building, flashlight tag, Legos, and lots of board games. The school’s 1700 acre campus includes ponds, streams, fields, and forests, a beautiful natural environment for all kinds of outdoor exploration and play.
All meals are served family-style in the school dining room, where faculty and students eat together three times each day.
Student dorms, with single and double bedrooms, a full kitchen, and a living room, house 5 to 7 students plus a live-in dorm parent. The dorm kitchen is used for snacks, weekend breakfasts, special meals and, perhaps, a place to do homework.
The best candidates for Hampshire Country School are boys of high verbal/intellectual ability who want to do well and to please adults but who may have had serious difficulty settling down in school, making friends, and generally fitting in. Past difficulties may have been severe, and bright students who carry such diagnoses as Asperger’s syndrome, nonverbal learning disabilities, or ADHD may thrive in the Hampshire Country School setting. The school is not appropriate for students who use or experiment with any kind of alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs.
Students must be U.S. citizens or legal residents. Typically, students come from about 12 to 15 states distributed throughout the U.S.A., plus a few students who live abroad.
Hampshire Country School was founded in 1948. It is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
Hampshire Country School
28 Patey Circle
Rindge, New Hampshire 03461 USA
Telephone: (603) 899-3325
Fax: (603) 899-3325
hampshirecountry@monad.net
www.hampshirecountryschool.org