The educational program, coordinated from Beginners through Grade 12, provides a rigorous core curriculum that is taught in innovative ways. Each campus is composed of energetic learners from a wide variety of backgrounds and geographic locations, united by a common pursuit of excellence. Shady Hill is an independent, coeducational day school. There are over 3,100 alumni. Students come from about 30 different communities, the majority from Cambridge and Boston.
Class sizes are limited.
Faculty 90, some of whom are part-time. Location Eleven acres with tree-lined paths and ample grassy areas for play and team sports, in a quiet Cambridge neighborhood. Campus Sixteen buildings, including an art studio, music house, woodworking shop, library, gymnasium, science laboratories, an assembly hall, and a number of child-scaled classroom buildings. Curriculum Relationships among many areas of learning are stressed, with original sources rather than textbooks. Central Subject, a distinctive method of teaching at Shady Hill, is an integrated approach to a people via their history, literature, geography, and arts.