WALNUT HILL SCHOOL

Walnut Hill School is a beautiful school found about seventeen miles from Boston, in a residential neighborhood of Natick, Massachusetts. This is an independent, coeducational, boarding and day secondary school that teaches the arts from grades 9 – 12. The age of the students here are naturally 13 -18.

Walnut Hill School teaches intensive arts training in creative writing, visual art, theater, music and ballet in addition to a rigorous academic curriculum in all college-preparatory subjects. A student has to get a minimum of 16 credits to graduate from Winston Hill where a minimum of 4 academic credits have to be completed every year at the school. Students failing to pass a course in the second semester of senior year cannot graduate. Students who wish to enter Walnut Hill School have to show their prior credits applied to the diploma requirements. Once the Academic Dean and the appropriate department heads approve these credentials, the student has to complete the courses according to its requirements. International students too have to fulfill these requirements and pass the TOEFL.

The Walnut Hill School offers a strength and flexibility based curriculum to its students with which the student develops freedom and a means of pursuing his or her own expression. The students from Walnut Hill are encouraged to experiment constructively with words they inherit from songs, speeches, stories and essays. This is how they try to foster creativity in the youths. Students pursuing music in Walnut Hill School study in a conservatory environment where they receive unique artistic and academic training in its secondary level. The students are prompted to attend concerts and master classes to enjoy music here. Students of theater program of Walnut Hill School develop both artistically and intellectually with the various teachings of the program.