Midland School

Midland School provides a unique college preparatory boarding school experience to a diverse student body. Through study and work, it teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity, responsibility to community and the environment, and love for the outdoors.

In the nine decades since our founding, Midland has grown and evolved in a myriad of ways, adding campus infrastructure, admitting young women in the early 1970s, and honing our curriculum to become increasingly place-based as an experiential learning boarding school. Yet our founding principles and values are the root from which we continue to grow and thrive: simplicity; evaluating our needs and wants; environmental stewardship; meaningful connections between students, teachers and the ideas they study; and accessibility to families of all financial means.

Midland School provides a unique college prep boarding school experience to a diverse student body. Through study and work, it teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity, responsibility to community and the environment, and a love for the outdoors.

Midland School is a community of students, teachers and families in pursuit of academic excellence and moral lives. We are guided by the following principles:

The essential ingredients of learning are a student, a teacher and an idea.
A high-quality college preparatory education should be accessible to families of all economic means.
A simple, self-reliant lifestyle, close to nature, teaches us to develop our inner resources, to distinguish between needs and wants and to appreciate life’s fundamental joys and challenges.
A school community entrusting students with authentic leadership roles, emphasizing individual and collective responsibility and relying on its own work to meet its basic needs, prepares students to take care of themselves and to serve others.
Connection to the environment, through academic education and everyday example, teaches students to be good stewards of the earth.

At Midland, students learn to love who they are.

In a community that accepts you just as you are, being true to yourself — and perhaps exploring the unknown parts of who you might become — is welcomed and encouraged. Here at Midland, students of various backgrounds and identities come together to form a community and foster belonging. Without the added pressures of social media and online self-performance, Midlanders can slowly evolve and grow into the humans they’re meant to be, rather than the ones society tells them they should be!