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Taking inspiration from our motto, Proctor Academy creates a diverse learning and living community: one that values the individual and recognizes the potential of each member to stretch beyond what had been thought possible.

Balancing academic rigor, structure, and support with the freedom for students to explore, create and define themselves, Proctor encourages students to achieve their optimal growth. A deep commitment to an integrated academic support program and an emphasis on experiential learning is interwoven throughout Proctor’s academic, athletic, artistic, and environmentally conscious programs both on and off campus.
 

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380

Total Students

1848

Year Founded

2,500

Acre Rural Campus

140+

Academic Courses

Relationships that form theFoundation for Learning

We believe students are most successful when they feel seen, known, and deeply connected to their school community. The strength of Proctor’s community comes from the depth of relationships formed between students and faculty. Teachers are advisors, coaches, and dorm parents, living alongside students and working with them throughout all areas of their life. 

Learn more about Proctor's Educational Model

Proctor Academy Parent Advice
The Pursuit of (Un)Happiness

The path to happiness is not rooted in more happiness, but in productive struggle. We must communicate to our children that we are not in a pursuit of happiness, but a pursuit of balance, of experiencing joy and sorrow, despair and hope, productivity and apathy, happiness and unhappiness. 

Proctor Academy Community
The Eclipse, Moments of Pause, and the Dopamine War

We are ready to embrace our role as a school in developing an intentional, reasonable, long-arching strategy to help educate, shield, and protect our students from believing the best of this world lives behind a screen.

Proctor Academy Students
Finding the Right Fit: Unabashedly Proctor

We believe there are many paths to, and definitions of, success and that cookie cutters are not made for adolescents. We believe that when adults in a school are truly passionate about what they do, those sparks will carry over to the student body. Do you? 

Proctor Academy Community Students
Balancing Wants and Needs for Adolescents

As we work to create a school community that supports our students during these root-nourishing years, we find ourselves balancing that which our students want with that which we believe they need. 

 
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4:1

Student: Faculty Ratio

5

Average Students in an Advisory Group

21

Small, Family Style Dormitories

10+

Adults Directly Connected to Each Student

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Expand Your Identity

From the first moment a student steps foot on campus until the moment they walk across the stage at graduation, experiential learning, challenge, and support permeate every layer of a student's academic journey. 

Academics at Proctor 

The Off-CampusExperience

Proximate learning does not occur without risk, but it is in those moments where students are living their education alongside the issues they are studying that lives are transformed.

The Off-Campus Experience

Living at aBoarding School

Proctor has intentionally built a residential community filled with small, family-style dormitories that place the student and adult relationship at the center of the boarding experience.

Residential Life at Proctor

Afternoon Program and Athletics

Every student engages in Proctor’s athletic and activity program each afternoon because we believe it is through shared, team experiences that we have the opportunity to put our core values into action.

Athletics and Afternoon Programs

Community committed to Diverse Learners

We are a community of diverse learners, recognizing all students are at different points in their educational journey. We celebrate neurodiversity, diverse backgrounds, and varied lived experiences because we understand the unique perspective of all students strengthens us as a community.

 Belonging to the Proctor Community

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5

Trimester Off-Campus Programs

70%

 of Students Who Study Off-Campus

30+

Competitive Athletic Teams

1

Privately Owned and Operated Ski Area

Stewarding aSense of Place

We don’t just teach environmental stewardship at Proctor, we live it. Situated on 2,500 acres of woodlands, our campus and the trails, lakes, ponds, and adventures that lie within, connect us to the natural world that sustains us.

Environmental Stewardship in Action

Mountain Classroom Spring 2024
Mountain Classroom: Kicking Off the Spring Term

After around a month-long hiatus, the Mountain Classroom blog is back! As the first of four total blog posts, Molly and Niko cover just what has happened during the first two weeks of the program! 

Proctor Academy Project Period
The Journey: Powering Down for More

All over the Proctor proper, students are taking a different kind of road less traveled as they gently springboard back into themselves and into the final stretch of the 2023-2024 school year. 

Proctor Academy Mountain Classroom
Mountain Classroom: The Adventure Begins

From snow to rain and cold, the Mountain Classroom group has been up to a flurry of eventful activities. Starting in the farmlands of Huntington, Vermont, the group stayed in a very pretty heated barn allowing us to settle into the frontcountry, and start our work with Penny Huett, our black ash basket instructor.

Proctor Academy Cabin Environmental Stewardship
Sustaining and Crafting Culture: 9th Grade Cabin Hike

Every year at Proctor is wholly new, yet remarkably familiar. The faces of students change over time, both as they mature and as the natural turnover of the student body every four years introduces new, eager minds ready to embark on their Proctor experience.

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2,500

Acre Campus

47

Miles of Trails on Campus

480,000+

kWh of Solar Produced on Campus

1

Weekly Polar Swim in Elbow Pond

Live to Learn. Learn to Live.

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