Hopkins School

Today, Hopkins is a traditional, independent, coeducational day school of 710 students in grades 7–12. Located on a 108-acre campus overlooking New Haven, the School takes pride in its distinguished faculty and a dedicated staff. We define ourselves as a community of civility and learning, one that educates students from diverse backgrounds to a full measure of their talents and humanity. Together, we seek to: develop in our young people the habits of mind of scholars as the foundation for a lifelong love of learning foster the courage to live and think as distinct individuals who embrace their responsibilities in the larger world expose every student to the deep satisfaction that derives from service to others enlarge the educational experience to include the creative joy and aesthetic sensibility of the artist, and the vitality and competitive spirit of the athlete provide, through the School’s advisers, the wisdom and goodwill necessary to guide our young people to confident self-reliance nurture the development of character essential to leading a rich and purposeful life These tenets are made manifest in the daily life of the School and in the hopes and ambitions we share as an educational community. Taken as a whole, these values provide us both definition and direction as we strive to fulfill Hopkins’ mission. It is our strong belief that Hopkins remains true to our founder’s purpose and that the School is a contemporary realization of these centuries-old ideals.