Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield Mount Hermon School (NMH) is a ninth-twelfth grade private college preparatory school located in Mount Hermon, Massachusetts.

The school was originally founded by famed Protestant evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody as two separate institutions: Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in 1879, and Mount Hermon School for Boys in 1881. Moody envisaged both of these schools to be parts of his dream to provide the best possible education for less privileged people. Indeed, even, in their infancy, Moody’s schools consisted of matriculated students whose parents were slaves, Native Americans, and from outside the US - something that was unimaginable in many elite private schools at that time. Dwight Lyman Moody's birthplace and burial place are both located on the Northfield campus.

Since the establishment of Northfield Mount Hermon School, it operated on two campuses up until the end of the 2004-05 school year. It consolidated all students and classes onto its Mount Hermon Campus when the school's trustees decided that students would best benefit educationally and socially in a smaller, more close-knit community.

During the late 20^th century, Northfield Mount Hermon School has been viewed as informal, tolerant, and progressive. The students at NMH have in the past been described as more culturally or politically liberal than students at other New England private college preparatory schools. One of its strengths is its richness of diversity and its students' acceptance of differing points of view, though some feel that there is a pronounced liberal slant to the opinions on campus.