Thank you for your interest in The Field School! We are honored to have families look at our school, and we hope that this website answers most of your questions about our school and the admissions process.
Your first question, we suspect is: Why Field? What makes our school different or special? Why is this the best place for your child?
Uniquely small class sizes, with a median of 11 students.
Most comparable independent schools have 14 to 15 children in the classroom.
Student-teacher ratio of six to one.
Similar schools have a ratio around 9 to 1. Field students receive an unmatched level of attention and personal instruction.
An ethos that promotes and even demands that students are engaged.
Ask any of the students here. We demand and receive academic excellence.
Learning how to learn.
Field's first mission is to teach the crucial skills: critical thinking, inquiry, writing, and problem solving. We do not follow “tracks” similar to other schools to separate students based on levels of academic achievement. Students receive daily exposure to varying types of teaching, modeling that there is more than one way to think, to learn, to process information, to express an idea.