There are over 3,400 alumni. Students come from about 30 different communities, the majority from Cambridge and Boston.
Class sizes are limited.
Eleven acres with tree-lined paths and ample grassy areas for play and team sports, in a quiet Cambridge neighborhood. Seventeen buildings, including an art studio, music house, woodworking shop, library, gymnasium, science laboratories, an assembly hall, and a number of child-scaled classroom buildings. Central Subject , a distinctive method of teaching at Shady Hill, is an integrated approach to a people via their history, literature, geography, and arts. The program includes physical education as well as a broad variety of intra-mural and interscholastic team sports. All assistance is based on a family's ability to pay.