Wardlaw + Hardridge

W elcome
Andrew Webster
Head of School
Thank you for taking a few minutes to read about W+H
and to learn about the key advantages we provide to our
families.
When we enroll new students at any grade level, our sights
are focused clearly on a future whose features are not yet
determined. Our goal is to develop students who are
prepared to become pioneering thinkers in any field they
choose, including ones that do not yet exist.
We develop young men and women who excel in creative
and analytical thinking, and who communicate with clarity and
eloquence. They listen well, engage in respectful discourse,
and learn to pursue the sort of rigorous questioning that
yields insight and deep understanding. Our students develop
a strong commitment to ethical conduct and to global
engagement and responsibility. They learn to be resilient
and resourceful, and to take initiative.
In short, we prepare them to create and shape their own
future, not merely to adapt. To us, it is a distinction that
makes all the difference.
Please read on, investigate, and visit with us. When you do
come to campus, stop by my office. It would be my privilege
to shake your hand and listen to your story. I am sure it is
amazing.

N umbers
More than bricks, desks, books, athletic fields, performing arts centers, and media labs, the story of W+H is the story of our
diverse students and the expert faculty and staff who invest their lives to empower the success of those students.
But there are numbers, too, that tell a story. These are some of our numbers:
Founding
Date
1882
Total Enrollment
(approximately)
465
Faculty with
Advanced Degrees
77%
Teacher-Student
Ratio
7 to 1
Average
Class Size
14
Communities Represented
in our Student Body
65
Countries
Represented
10
Total Worldwide
Alumni
3,390
Upper School
Courses
100
Honors and Advanced
Placement Classes
35
Athletic
Teams
35
Fine & Performing Arts
Participation
80%
Student Body Participating in
Athletics and Extracurriculars
100%
College Acceptance
Rate
100%
Average
College Scholarship
$163,511
School
Divisions
3

She Acts Her Age

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he Lower School
Silvia Davis, M.S. Ed.
Head of The Lower School
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The Lower School is one of the most joyful places in the world.
Here, our youngest students develop their blossoming minds,
growing bodies, and soaring hearts, guided by our passionate
and experienced faculty. Hands-on and interdisciplinary, our
classrooms extend far beyond the brick walls of our buildings,
past the tree-lined boundaries of our huge campus, and as far as
students’ and teachers’ imaginations can carry them. The Lower
School is learning without limits.
Our students leave for The Middle School with the academic
fundamentals and social skills to hit the ground running. As
importantly, they are now excited to come to school each
morning to learn about themselves and their world. We are
always sorry to see them leave but we will watch them closely -
and fondly - as they continue to blossom at W+H.
Our curriculum highlights include:
+ Pairing our youngest students
with ‘Senior Buddies’ (students
in Twelfth Grade) to provide
them with older friends who
greet them in the hallways and
offer advice and encouragement.
Our students will celebrate
special W+H events with their
Senior Buddies hand-in-hand
throughout the school year.
+ Receiving Spanish, Fine Arts,
and Music instruction at the
earliest grade levels.
+ Enhancing critical thinking and
cooperative learning through
our continually evolving STEM
program, which incorporates
Robotics, Coding, and Engineering.
+ Studying Public Speaking in
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grades.
+ Learning skills in a wide variety of
athletic pursuits, including
archery, water polo, swimming,
and team handball.
+ Playing their hearts out at daily
outdoor recess on The Lower
School’s dedicated playground
and field.
+ Tending their class garden. Each
class in The Lower School has its
own garden.

Our curriculum highlights
include:
+ Actively integrating STEM and
Humanities learning.
Corinna Crafton, Ed.D.
Head of The Middle School
+ Intentionally and intensively
enhancing and expanding
students’ skills and abilities in
creativity, collaboration, time
management, resilience, and
ethics.
+ Participating in Elective
opportunities like chess,
robotics, movie making,
animation, and computer
coding.
+ Facilitating a year-long
Capstone research project for
Eighth Grade students.
T
he Middle School
The Middle School is an amazing place where girls and boys embrace their
individuality, cultivate their self-confidence, and discover the one-in-a-zillion
talents and gifts that make them them.
Our students are inquisitive, eager, collaborative, and accepting. Our girls and
boys strive not only for success in academic pursuits, but for happiness and
fulfillment in their lives, too. Wondering, exploring, learning, persevering,
achieving, and triumphing are all part of a student’s journey, and these things
happen here, every day.
The Middle School’s curriculum is responsive and adaptive to the needs and
talents of each student, as well as our own rapidly evolving understanding of
how children’s brains work and how they learn best.
We leverage an integrated, sequential Essential Questioning (EQ) model for
academic and character growth. Each grade has an Essential Question and
they build sequentially from grade-to-grade. These EQ's are infused across
disciplines and within the Advisory Program for the duration of the school
year.
Additionally, we use online learning platforms to enable interactive and
peer-to-peer learning outside our classrooms and beyond the school day.
With open minds and open hearts, our students leave The Middle School as
confident, poised, and empathetic independent thinkers ready for the diverse
demands of high school.

She Solves Problems

They Are Transformed

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Bob Bowman, Ph.D.
Head of The Upper School
he Upper School
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The Upper School curriculum
is dynamic and focused on
preparing students for success in
college. Some highlights include:
+ Tailoring to each student’s
strengths and interests
through 100 courses, 18 AP
classes, a rigorous Capstone
program, and a wide range
of electives.
Students in The Upper School are adventurous. They continually challenge
themselves with guidance and encouragement from teachers, coaches, advisors,
and mentors who know them individually and care about them deeply.
From Ninth Grade to Twelfth Grade, students pursue an arc of intellectual and
social growth that prepares them to be pioneering thinkers. They build a strong
foundation of skills in the disciplines of history, English, mathematics, science,
and world languages. In small classroom settings, teachers challenge students
to develop sophisticated thinking and communication skills, to ask probing
questions, to examine evidence and create thoughtful syntheses, to propose
insightful solutions to problems, and to wrestle with difficult dilemmas.
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Students choose their own path in other ways, too, with the opportunity to
take leadership roles in athletics, the arts, service learning, clubs, publications,
student government, or areas of their own invention.
One of the culminating events in a student’s tenure at W+H is his or her Senior
Speech. Each senior presents a talk to the entire community of The Upper
School, sharing inspiration and wisdom they have acquired in their time here.
These are passionate reflections, delivered with poise and confidence.
Laughter, and sometimes tears, abound throughout the audience.
More than just prepared for the world, students graduate from The Upper
School prepared to transform it. In ways small and large but always for the
better, they are Pioneering Thinkers. We are quite proud of them and grateful
for the privilege of having shared in their lives.
+ Emphasizing project-based
learning with extended
investigations of authentic,
complex problems that
require students to seek out
new understanding and
apply previously acquired
knowledge.
+ Facilitating opportunities for
hands-on creativity, whether
it’s our Broadcast Engineering
course in our television studio;
the Independent School Film
Festival; an outstanding
visual arts program; and
courses in Design Thinking,
Coding, and Engineering.
+ Providing a unique Global
Scholars Program for students
interested in developing
their understanding of
diverse cultures, international
affairs, and global
stewardship.

Clubs and Teams
We believe the most meaningful lessons at W+H are not always in textbooks. Instead, they are learned in hallways and learning spaces,
on stages, across playing fields, and on courts. The opportunities to stretch their hearts and minds at W+H are many and frequent.
clubs
CLUBS
Club Interact - American Red Cross
Language Clubs - Spanish, Chinese, Latin
Investment Club
Peer Tutoring
The Beacon (school newspaper)
Yearbook
Model UN
STEM Society - Physics/Engineering
Empowering Young Women
Gay Straight Alliance
Cultural Celebrations Club
Spoken Word
Ethics Bowl
Garage Band
Math Olympiad
Chess Club
A Cappella
W+H Tech for Students
Library Club
Future Business Leaders of America
Tabletop Strategies
Mural Club
Art Club
Robotics Club
Technology Club
The Hyphen and Visions Literary Magazines
Knitting Club
Crafting Club
Chess Club
Frisbee Club
Jail Birds (Forensics) Club
TEAMS
Cross Country
Soccer
Tennis
Volleyball
Basketball
Cheerleading
Swimming
Baseball
Golf
Lacrosse
Softball
Tennis
Track & Field
teams

Tomorrow
Individually advised and supported by an experienced College Counseling team, W+H students apply and enroll to
leading colleges and universities around the world. From coast to coast, continent to continent, across almost every
category of school, our alumni are "Pioneering. Thinkers.”.
Boston College Boston University Brown University Columbia University Cornell University
Dartmouth College Drexel University Duke University George Washington
University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute
of Technology
Harvard University Johns Hopkins University New York University Northwestern University
Princeton University
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
Rutgers University St. John’s University The Julliard School
Tulane University
The University of
Edinburgh
University of California University of Pennsylvania Yale University

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