As you embark on the exciting process of choosing a secondary school, we encourage you to visit our campus, talk to our students and faculty, look through our viewbook, and explore our website. We are eager to share Pingree's academic, arts, and athletics programs with you. Pingree School is dedicated to providing each student with a vibrant learning environment that helps them achieve and thrive in school and beyond. We work on challenging and inspiring students to reach their most significant potential as they grow to be leaders, scholars, and global citizens.
Dedicated to academic excellence and the development of high personal standards, Pingree believes that a love of learning flourishes best in a diverse community that respects truth, curiosity, creativity, humor, and independent and imaginative thinking. Above all, Pingree strives to instill in its students' integrity, decency, compassion, self-esteem, and commitment to one another and the world.
As a small, coeducational college preparatory day school founded in 1960, Pingree advances its mission through its teachers, advisors, and coaches, whose close rapport with students empowers their academic, athletic, and extracurricular careers here and enables us to identify and encourage personal strengths. These interactions, in partnership with parents, enable us to instill the values of our mission.
Students become confident in their abilities and diligent as citizens in society. At Pingree, students participate actively to bring about a better world, developing as leaders and individuals with the courage to take risks and grow as students and people.
Pingree School's mission states that "Pingree believes that love of learning flourishes best in a diverse community." In keeping with this philosophy, we must actively recruit students, faculty, staff, and trustees of diverse backgrounds. The school and its trustees are committed to ensuring that Pingree is open and welcoming to an all-inclusive population. We seek to be a community of people who respect, nurture, and sustain an awareness of how diversity enriches all of our lives. The Pillars of a Pingree School education are designed to develop and encourage critical thinking, the discipline of mind, and civic engagement. We believe that in order to thrive, today's students must learn to:
- Communicate effectively through written, spoken, non-verbal, and creative means.
- Navigate complex information by gathering, exploring, and assessing sources with adaptive and flexible thinking.
- Originate in thought and action with imagination, confidence, creativity, and an innovative spirit.
- Participate fully in the community's life, collaborating, asking questions, initiating ideas, taking risks, and leading by example.
- Relate with empathy, seeking to understand diverse perspectives while being mindful of the impact of actions and words on others and the environment.
Pingree education is dynamic, provocative, and exciting. Our students are consistently challenged to step out of the traditional academic setting and into real-world situations that compel them to draw from and expand upon the knowledge they have acquired in the classroom. With ample opportunity for service learning, civic engagement, cultural exchange, internships, and independent projects, Pingree students learn by doing—by taking the initiative, making their own decisions, meeting new people, and getting their hands dirty.
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