Nashoba Brooks School: Educating for Life, Leadership, and a Changing World
Nashoba Brooks School is dedicated to educating children for a life of continuous learning, accomplishment, and leadership in a diverse and changing world. Situated on a beautiful 30-acre campus in historic Concord, Massachusetts, the school provides students with a firm foundation of academic skills, scholarship, moral values, and attitudes toward learning essential to healthy intellectual and personal growth. The school proudly celebrates the unique character of its community and its history.
A Legacy of Educational Excellence
The history of Nashoba Brooks School is rooted in a commitment to providing exceptional education. In 1928, Gladys Brooks, a distinguished educator, founded The Brooks School of Concord, reflecting her dedication to early childhood education. Thirty years later, in 1958, Nashoba Country Day School was established when Concord Academy, then an all-girls school, discontinued its middle school program. Both schools flourished independently until 1980 when they merged to form Nashoba Brooks School of Concord at its current location on Strawberry Hill Road.
A Unique Educational Model
Nashoba Brooks School serves all genders in Preschool through Grade 3, and students identifying as girls in Grades 4 through 8. This unique model allows the school to tailor its programs to meet the specific developmental needs of students at each stage of their education. In the Lower School (Preschool-Grade 3), students of all genders discover and acquire essential life and learning skills. Preschool students typically arrive at three years of age (by September 1), and Kindergarten students at five years of age. The Lower School program focuses on developing multicultural perspectives and fostering a safe environment for students to take on new academic challenges. Students love coming to school because the classroom is an adventure, and teachers serve as their guides on this journey.
In the Middle School (Grades 4-8), students identifying as girls rise to academic challenges while finding opportunities for self-exploration and leadership. Nashoba Brooks Middle School students learn to answer tough questions, pursue elusive answers, assert well-formed opinions, and meet life’s obstacles with sureness, strength, and a sense of humor. As the community’s oldest students, they model the empathy, resilience, and grit needed to succeed in high school and the world. They become leaders and respected members of the region’s best secondary schools, and in the colleges, universities, and careers they choose.
Core Values: Shaping the School Experience
Nashoba Brooks School prepares its students for lives as engaged citizens and ethical leaders in their communities. The school works to build and actively maintain an inclusive community in which all students and families experience a sense of belonging, engagement, and recognition. The core values of collaboration, empathy, inclusivity, integrity, and resilience shape the experience of each member of the community on a daily basis. Nashoba Brooks values the training of character as highly as the training of the mind and is dedicated to the development of character in all aspects of School life. The school is committed to inspiring self-confidence, encouraging self-advocacy, and accenting the individual strengths of its students.
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Curriculum and Learning
The curriculum at Nashoba Brooks School is designed to prepare students for a world that is rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected. The integrated curriculum helps students explore learning that transcends academic disciplines to build broad and deep understanding of core content as well as skills that enable them to apply their knowledge in new and evolving contexts. The school believes that learning should be a joyful process filled with challenge, wonder, and awe. They want their students to embrace a growth mindset, to recognize mistakes as an important part of discovery, to make connections with the natural world, and to see themselves as learners for life.
Students gain competence and confidence to participate and contribute as members of an inclusive community. The school provides students with many opportunities to develop and practice authentic leadership skills. Whether presenting during a sharing of understanding in the Lower School, or making a speech about core values when running for class president in the Middle School, students find, develop, and leverage their voices to advocate for themselves and others. When contributing to a book discussion, creating an award winning documentary film, performing on stage, leading an all-school assembly, taking on a MATHCOUNTS competition, or serving as an upstander in the broader community, students think critically and engage meaningfully. Nashoba Brooks students are well known for their active and dedicated participation in their communities.
A Focus on Individual Growth
Nashoba Brooks challenges children to achieve their personal best by fostering a school culture that encourages risk-taking and trying something outside of one's comfort zone. As a small community with intimate class sizes, the school knows its students by more than just their names; they know them by their character, quirks, interests, challenges, and successes. Teachers guide their students to participate, learn, and develop a sense of belonging. The school knows that there is no one way to be excellent and no single measure of excellence, and they believe in helping each child to discover, explore, and harness their individual strengths and lean into areas for growth. Nashoba Brooks students learn more when they measure their achievement against their own continuous improvement.
Community and Recognition
The Nashoba Brooks School community is comprised of students, parents, teachers, and trustees who all find joy in learning as a lifelong pursuit. Together, they invest in the children, the future, and the value of inspired education. The school is grateful to hang a newly commissioned mural by artist and alum, Rachel Gloria Manly Adams '01, in the Middle School corridor. As part of interdisciplinary work across science, humanities, writer’s workshop, and transliteracy, Grade 4 students engage with the Invention Convention, which provides a hands-on opportunity for students to creatively solve a novel problem. Parents often express that their children are happy every day at pickup.
Key Facts and Figures
Nashoba Brooks School is a private school located in Concord, MA. The student population of Nashoba Brooks School is 199. The school’s minority student enrollment is 26.6% and the student-teacher ratio is 6:1. Financial aid is available, and tuition and fees may vary depending on grade and other factors.
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