Buxton School

Buxton School is located in Williamstown Massachusetts. It is a private boarding school and college preparatory school for grades nine to twelve. The campus is set in meadows and forests that cover an area of 150 acres.

Buxton School was found by Ellen Geer Sangster in 1928. The school was then a coeducational country day school in Short Hills, New Jersey. In the year 1974, this high school was moved to the founder’s family estate in Williamstown and it is there that it became a boarding school. During the first enrollment, the number of enrollees was twenty two students, including the students from Buxton Short Hills.

Academic Life in Buxton School

Included in the course list offered in Buxton School are English, History and Social Science, Mathematics, Sciences, Foreign Languages, and the Arts. The students in Buxton are given adequate academic freedom, which allows them to create and join student academic organizations. Each organization focuses on a certain academic field that they are interested in.

Boarding Life in Buxton School

Most students in Buxton School are boarding students. The school has intended special locations for the students to stay, including the Main House and the Gate House for female students, and the Barn House for the boys. The rooms are occupied by two students and the roommates are changed three times a year.

Part of being a boarding school, Buxton School also holds extra-curricular activities with an aim to enhance the skills of students in sports and cultural endeavors. The school holds “Spring Arts Weekend” and “Fall Arts Weekend” every year. Some of the activities include choral presentations, plays, recitals and other related art performances.