Walnut Hill School
Walnut Hill School for the Arts is an independent boarding school for the arts located in Natick, Massachusetts.
History and programs
Boarding school
Walnut Hill was founded in 1893 by Florence Bigelow and Charlotte Conant as a college preparatory school for women and a feeder school for Wellesley College. Even as a traditional private boarding school for girls, Walnut Hill's arts programs were strong. The school was home to acclaimed Fenway Studios artist and teacher Marion L. Pooke, class of 1901, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Poet Laureate Elizabeth Bishop '30. It became coeducational and arts-focused in the late 1970s in respond to changes in the educational landscape.
Mission statement
The mission of Walnut Hill is to educate talented, accomplished and intellectually engaged young artists from all over the world. The School does so in a diverse, humane and ethical community.
High School
Students at Walnut Hill major in one of five arts disciplines: dance, music, theatre, visual art, and writing, film, and media arts. With the exception of voice students, music students at Walnut Hill take their weekly private lessons at The New England Conservatory in Boston and perform in NEC's Preparatory Ensembles. Admission to Walnut Hill is by academic application and artistic audition or portfolio submission (depending on the artistic discipline).
Walnut Hill
Walnut Hill is the name of several locations in the United States:
See also
Walnut Hill (Omaha)
Walnut Hill is a historic neighborhood located in north Omaha, Nebraska. It is bounded by North 40th Street on the east, Cuming Street on the south, Northwest Radial Highway and Saddle Creek Road on the west and Hamilton Street on the north.
History
Dr. Samuel Mercer constructed a large, private residence at 40th and Cuming Streets and platted the Walnut Hill subdivision northwest of his home in the 1880s. Previously, Mercer financed the construction of cable-line streetcars in Omaha, and by the end of the 1880s, his line extended as far west as North 36th and Cuming Streets.
Walnut Hill Elementary School was first constructed in 1888, rebuilt in 1927 and again in 1994. It is one of Omaha's oldest schools. The neighborhood suffered minor damage in the catastrophic Easter Sunday Tornado of 1913.
After the Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 many of the large streetcars employed to carry throngs of passengers were removed from service by the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company. In the face of increasingly uncomfortable crowding on the small cars, a large demonstration by a group of residents from the Walnut Hill suburb during which they took over several streetcars in the city to protest the poor condition of public transportation in their neighborhood.
Walnut Hill (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Walnut Hill is a historic home located near Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia. The 1 1/2-story dwelling was built in several sections starting in 1802. The oldest section is a log dwelling with an internal gable-end stone chimney, and is now the south wing. Before 1820, a two-room-plan frame addition was built onto the north end of the log dwelling to become the main or front section of the house. One-story frame additions were made about 1870, in 1948-1950, and again in 1984. Also on the property are a contributing smokehouse, chicken house, kitchen chimney, and family cemetery.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
References
The Hill School
The Hill School is a preparatory boarding school for boys and girls located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The Hill is part of an organization known as the Ten Schools Admissions Organization (TSAO). This organization was founded more than forty years ago on the basis of a number of common goals and traditions. Member schools include The Hill School, Choate Rosemary Hall, Deerfield Academy, The Lawrenceville School, The Taft School, The Hotchkiss School, St. Paul's School, Loomis Chaffee, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Phillips Academy Andover. The Hill is also accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
As of July 2015, The Hill's endowment was approximately $155 million.
History
The Hill School was founded in 1851 by the Rev. Matthew Meigs as the Family Boarding School for Boys and Young Men. The School opened on May 1, 1851, enrolling 25 boys for the first year. The Family Boarding School was the first of its kind in America. According to Paul Chancellor’s The History of The Hill School: 1851-1976, “He [Meigs] wanted to stress that he was not founding still another academy, but a type of school quite new and rare in America. There is a tendency to think that the boys’ boarding school as we know it existed as long as there have been private schools. It has not. Most of the 12 to 15 schools generally considered the “core” group were established in the last half of the nineteenth century. Of this whole group of schools, The Hill was the first to be founded as a family boarding school, i.e., a school where the students lived on campus, as opposed to boarding with families in the town. Upholding The Family Boarding School tradition are the approximately 30 percent of today's Hill students who have a legacy connection. Today's student body includes young women who were first admitted to The Hill in 1998.
Hill School (South Dartmouth, Massachusetts)
The Hill School is a historic school building (now a private residence) at 4 Middle Street in the Padanaram village of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The two-story wood frame structure was built c. 1806, and was established by the area's early settlers as a cooperative venture. It has a "3/4" facade, with three asymmetrically-placed windows on each floor, and an off-center entry between two of them, with no window above. The building was moved about 450 feet (140 m) in 1912 to its present location.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
References
Hill School (Virginia)
Coordinates: 38°57′55″N 77°44′06″W / 38.9654°N 77.7349°W / 38.9654; -77.7349
The Hill School (founded 1926) is a private school for kindergarten through grade eight located in Middleburg, Virginia.
Facilities
The school's 137-acre (0.55 km2) campus includes three classroom buildings, an administrative building and library, a performing arts center, an art building, a music/lunchroom building, a natural sciences center, and an athletic center. Also on campus are a jogging trail, orchard, arboretum, five athletic fields, and several natural features including ponds, streams, and wetlands. The school's facilities serve as a community resource; many programs and teaching symposia are open to the public, and the theatre is open to community participation.
Faculty and Staff
The faculty has experience that ranges from 1 to 38 years and on average is about 14 years. The student to teacher ratio is 7:1. Kindergarten through third grade classrooms have two full-time homeroom teachers.
