Winsor is an independent day school for academically promising and motivated girls in grades 5-12. Winsor enrolls approximately 450 students from diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. They hail from more than 50 different communities in and around the city of Boston.
Winsor fosters an active lifestyle and a positive body image through a dynamic physical education curriculum and 14 interscholastic teams at the varsity, junior varsity, and middle school levels. "Wildcat" Athletics is an integral part of the Winsor experience. Every season our student-athletes gain lifelong lessons in the value of competition, perseverance, and the true meaning of teamwork.
At Winsor, thinking globally means thinking about the skills, habits of mind, attitudes, and aptitudes that the 21st Century will demand: to get along with many types of people, to understand many cultures, to be flexible and resilient. While this begins in the classroom, many programs on and off campus expand girls' minds.
Winsor prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world. Winsor is a diverse, vibrant community that values intellectual curiosity, authentic engagement, and personal integrity. We challenge our students to lead lives of purpose as responsible, generous-minded women. Winsor strives to create an environment of respect and inclusion consciously and support ethnic, racial, religious, and socio-economic diversity among all school constituencies. Winsor strives to support this environment by building a more inclusive curriculum, addressing a range of learning styles, offering a wide array of diversity efforts and programs, and participating in the wider community. The school affirms, teaches, and values:
- Belief in the dignity and humanity of every person and a commitment to understanding individual and group differences.
- Respect for oneself and one another and responsibility for oneself and the community.
- The generosity of spirit, thinking beyond one's immediate self-interest, and sharing talents freely with others.
- Openness to new ideas and rejection of stereotypical thinking.
- Honesty, kindness, integrity, courage, humor.
- Empathetic understanding.
Winsor is committed to recognizing the importance of communication and to encouraging dialogue among all constituencies to promoting intellectual and social growth and development within the school community to providing a safe, supportive setting so that students have the opportunity to explore and to clarify their own beliefs and values, to take risks, and to think and speak for themselves and to recognizing and responding to individual and institutional prejudices, both overt and subtle, based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, and physical and mental ability.
Aware of the complexity of diversity issues, The Winsor School acknowledges a continuing need to evaluate and revise its diversity efforts. This process is critical to maintaining an academic and social environment where all students can develop confidence, values, knowledge, and the life skills they need to thrive within Winsor and the global community.
