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Location:
Canaan, NH
School Type: All Boys
Boarding Grades: 6-9
Enrollment: 186
Annual Boarding Tuition: $42,200
Annual Day Tuition: $24,500
Student to Teacher Ratio: 4:1
School Focus: Junior
Average Class Size: 10
% Students on Financial Aid: 23%
Endowment Size: N/A
Accommodates ADHD Students: Yes
School Supports LD: Yes
School Supports ESL: Yes
Year Founded: 1945
School Type: All Boys
Boarding Grades: 6-9
Enrollment: 186
Annual Boarding Tuition: $42,200
Annual Day Tuition: $24,500
Student to Teacher Ratio: 4:1
School Focus: Junior
Average Class Size: 10
% Students on Financial Aid: 23%
Endowment Size: N/A
Accommodates ADHD Students: Yes
School Supports LD: Yes
School Supports ESL: Yes
Year Founded: 1945
Cardigan Mountain School
Cardigan Mountain School Boarding information:
Philosophy
Cardigan was built upon an educational experience that emphasized rigorous academics and study habits, as well as spiritual guidance, physical training, and social orientation. In order to accomplish this purpose, Cardigan’s program was tailored to each boy so that he made the best possible use of his potential in these areas. Thus, every boy had a balanced and well-rounded life: physically, mentally, and spiritually. This philosophy is the same today as it was in 1945.
Mission
We believe that our mission is best served in a primarily residential community that allows for greater context and opportunity to educate the whole boy. Whether in the classroom, on the playing field, in the dining room, or in the dormitories, relationships formed between the adults and children in our community continue to be central to our mission and daily life.
Central to Cardigan’s mission is a formula for educating young men that seeks to find the promise in each individual and leads each boy on a path of purposeful and effective living. The Cardigan “brand” is one that is transformational in nature; it focuses on drawing out and developing the passion and talents of each person. Cardigan graduates young men who possess the self awareness, confidence, values, and maturity necessary for success in the next chapter of their lives.
A nonsectarian school, founded in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Cardigan fosters the spiritual and ethical development of its students through our weekly chapel service, through the study of different religions, philosophies, and belief systems, and through an action-oriented program that allows boys to demonstrate their compassion through service to other people and communities.
A Vision of Excellence in the Education of Boys
Cardigan’s faculty, unparalleled in its care, dedication, stability, expertise and commitment to the education of middle school boys, delivers a program known as “The Cardigan Way,” in which adults have multiple daily contacts with each student. The cornerstone of this program is a customized learning approach based on the recognition that every person learns and grows in different ways, and at varying rates and times. “The Cardigan Way” provides a program of excellence whose essential components include teaching and learning that are:
• Relevant to today’s world
• Engaging
• Multi-disciplinary
• Hands-on and experiential
• Age-appropriate
In concert with the natural beauty of its surroundings, Cardigan has created a community atmosphere that supports healthy relationships, fosters collegiality, provides a homelike environment for all its members, promotes responsible citizenship, and demonstrates respect and care for the environment
