The Buzz

After 56 years of Wilderness Orientation, we have learned that adolescents are capable of so much more than we think they are.

Much of advising is learning where to stand between stepping in and stepping back, and that position shifts in each situation. Read more about accompaniment and what it asks of an advisor.

As we begin another school year, we are excited to welcome a new group of faculty and staff to Proctor. We are grateful they have chosen to invest their talents here, and we look forward to the contributions they will make to the lives of the students they will come to know in the years ahead.

Dormitories at Proctor average twelve students, and residential life at Proctor teaches students something a classroom cannot. Two seniors describe their residential life experiences at Proctor.

As you anticipate your arrival, think about your favorite Proctor memories: waking up to a desert sunrise on Mountain Classroom, jumping through the ice during Polar Swim, scoring a goal under the lights and sprinting to the student section, laughing with friends at the swinging bridge, playing hacky sack on the turf. Each of these moments have something in common: phones are not present. 

This July, a group of Proctor students and members of our professional community traveled to South Dakota to spend ten days as guests on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations, living and working alongside the members of the Sicangu and Oglala communities who welcomed them.

As the construction of Proctor Academy’s new $8M Health and Well-Being Center nears completion, Proctor, Lavalee Brensigner, and HP Cummings Construction are thrilled to report that after whole-building testing, air tightness performance far surpasses Passive House and high-performance building standards.

“Intentional relationships create the conditions for the kind of learning that only happens when a student feels both challenged and fully believed in.” A year in, Head of School Amy Smucker reflects on the culture that makes Proctor extraordinary, and how a community holds onto it while continuing to evolve.

As of July 23, 2026, Proctor Academy has formally granted a perpetual recreational trail easement to the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition (SRKGC), securing permanent foot-access for outdoor enthusiasts along key portions of the region's interconnected trail network