Pingree School

We are a rigorous, caring, and authentic learning community in which students develop the dispositions and habits of mind to thrive in today's world. We marvel at our students, alumni, and faculty, in all their variety, with all their incredible talents, their capacity for hard work, their concern for others, their ability to think flexibly and communicate with precision, their imagination and creativity, their passion, and their persistence.

Close student-teacher relationships and a partnership with families are essential to us as we strive to instill in our students the values of integrity, compassion, self-esteem, and commitment to one another and the world at large. The impressive legacy of our School is borne out of the remarkable accomplishments among Pingree alumni. Our graduates serve others, and they are transforming their communities all over the world.

Pingree is a remarkable school with ambitious goals. As you read our mission statement, please know that this living, student-centered document is the standard against which our community measures all that we do.

Dedicated to academic excellence and 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 to the world at large.

As a small 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 in efforts 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 a population that is all-inclusive. We seek to be a community of people who respect, nurture, and sustain an awareness of how the diversity among us enriches all of our lives.