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Portledge Mission Statement
Portledge Mission Statement
Portledge School offers a competitive college preparatory program in a warm, inclusive community. Students are inspired to realize their individual potential by developing the critical thinking skills and moral courage necessary for lifelong learning in an increasingly complex world.
Portledge School offers a competitive college preparatory program in a warm, inclusive community. Students are inspired to realize their individual potential by developing the critical thinking skills and moral courage necessary for lifelong learning in an increasingly complex world.
About Portledge
About Portledge
As Portledge citizens, the four pillars of Kindness, Purpose, Honor and Respect guide daily life. These pillars support our mission statement which references explicitly moral courage, inclusion and realizing one's potential. They are the core of character development here and guide the programs in place outside the classroom. These fundamental values are designed to help students reflect on their inner self, better relate to others and how they understand and interact with the larger world.
Diversity Statement
Diversity Statement
Portledge School is an independent, pre-nursery through twelfth grade preparatory day school. The school’s coordinated sequential programs, beginning with the Reggio Emilia program in Early Childhood, provide a rigorous academic environment, preparing students to live responsible and productive lives. Dedicated teachers use small class size to deliver knowledge based on inquiry and inspired by a student-centered learning approach. Individual talents are nurtured through the arts, athletics, and a variety of community and travel programs that all emphasize the Portledge Pillars of kindness, purpose, honor, and respect.
What Makes Us Unique?
What Makes Us Unique?
Portledge School is where academic excellence and emotional intelligence meet to inspire next-generation thinkers with the confidence, skills, and values to achieve in an ever-changing world.
We are an inclusive community where every student has a voice, where adults model a love for learning, and where education expands beyond academics to include a full range of experiences—intellectual, artistic, athletic, social and emotional—allowing each student to develop a sense of who they are and who they want to be.
Our History
Our History
In May 1965, the trustees of the Alice K. Coffin Fund, Inc. gave 63 acres of the Alice S. Coffin estate, Portledge, and all the buildings on this land, to the adjoining Miss Stoddart’s School for Very Little People for the purpose of establishing a coeducational college preparatory day school.
Portledge found its early mission aiming at “providing an atmosphere of warmth and friendliness where the joy of learning and excitement of discovery are encouraged, shared and emphasized equally with the acquisition of knowledge, academic skills and the rigor of intellectual discipline.” The main residence was renovated during the summer, and Portledge School opened in September under the guidance of Headmistress Mary F. Jonathan with 100 children in nursery, kindergarten, first and second grades. A grade was added each year until the first senior class graduated in 1976.
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