Welcome to the Chestnut Hill School. As you can tell from the images represented throughout these online pages, our community is a joyful and inclusive place. Guided by the three pillars of our mission—community, diversity, and academic excellence, we believe not only in the intrinsic importance of childhood, but also in the potential for children to reshape the possibilities and hopes of our collective future. Chestnut Hill students can best be characterized by their insatiable love of learning. Stretched by a demanding program and nurtured by a community of multi-talented adults, they embody both the diversity of background and the depth of character that we so highly prize.

Like many good independent schools, Chestnut Hill strives to provide a balance between academic rigor and extracurricular enrichment. Blessed by a beautiful facility and a long tradition of supportive family involvement, we offer a significant array of programs outside of school hours both for children and for adults. In addition to the innovative and developmentally friendly signature programs described on these pages, we are proud of our well-established School for Music and our fast-growing Language School. Known also in the greater Boston region for the huge popularity of the Chestnut Hill School Creative Arts and Sports Program, we think big while celebrating the intimacy of our small environment.

Steven Tobolsky, Ph.D.
Head of School

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