Midland School

Mission & Philosophy

Mission: Midland School strives to provide a unique college preparatory boarding school experience to a diverse student body at relatively low cost. Through study and work, it teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity, responsibility to community and the environment, and love for the outdoors.

Philosophy: Midland School is a community of students, teachers, and families in pursuit of academic excellence and moral lives. We are guided by the following precepts:

One The essential ingredients of learning are a student, a teacher, and an idea.

Two A simple, self-reliant lifestyle, close to nature, teaches us to develop our inner resources, to distinguish between needs and wants, and to appreciate life's fundamental joys and challenges.

Three A school community entrusting students with authentic leadership roles, emphasizing individual and collective responsibility, and relying on its own work to meet its basic needs, prepares its students to take care of themselves and to serve others.

Four In this age of increasing concern about our environment, Midland students learn, through academic education and everyday example, to be good stewards of the earth.

An All-Encompassing Experience

Midland is not for the one- or even two-dimensional young person.  A Midlander is a scholar, an athlete, a citizen, an explorer, a worker, a steward, a leader. 
The experience one gets at Midland is incomparable, a once-in-a-lifetime chance to live and learn with a diverse and dynamic student body on 2,860 acres.