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Excellent
Most excellent.
Beyond excellent.
At the very least, a whole lot better than it used to be. Through a sequence of steps including most notably cutting the size of the school in half, NMH has done more to improve itself than many others over the last 20 years. The fundamental whole child qualities evidenced in the work job program and other details remains intact while the quality of the students and teachers has gone up. What’s lagging? To some degree the facilities. While progressing quite a bit as noted, the school does not have the endowment of big time building donors of the HADES group. Arts center is great. Science and math building is vintage 1960. The good news? You can teach well in anything that has lights and desks. IMHO facilities should not rank high on the evaluation list…
Very happy with quality of NMH. To address beard’s comment, the school is ready to begin construction on a new STEM building…they are in the process of choosing an architectural firm and hope to begin construction in the very near future. Great school, caring teachers, open-minded, accepting environment. I would also say that it has the most “anti-prep school” feel of any of the schools we visited and considered, if that makes sense. Just to clarify, I meant no harm in that previous statement!
Food. <:-P
I’ve heard the milk in their dining hall is absolutely AMAZING!!!
Definitely the food. NMH produces its own maple syrup and makes its own ice cream! The working farm brings a lot of wonderful, fresh food to the dining hall.
One more comment on this that just occurred to me. About a year ago, NMH announced they were canceling the football program. As could be expected, some of the alums were up in arms about it. However, it did seem like another example of the school being willing to make some serious choices rooted in a sense of what they want the school to be, rather than what other competing schools are doing. Whether or not you love or hate football, the school’s leadership is definitely progressive and actively leading the place to a destination rather than riding a wave of inertia…
I don’t know whether to take NMH, stay at my current school, or reapply to PEA… This thread definitely pushed me more toward NMH
While most prep schools were built for the wealthy, NMH was made for the poor, which I think is really cool.
@stargirl3 no word yet 
I came into some good money which I hope will cover a portion if not…
This is another reason we are proud that our D chose to attend NMH:
"Northfield Mount Hermon got a welcome holiday gift in mid-December when William R. Rhodes ’53, chairman emeritus of the NMH Board of Trustees, donated $1 million in cash to endow a new academic course in social entrepreneurship.
Beginning as a pilot program next fall, the Rhodes Fellowship Course in Social Entrepreneurship will train students to create actual businesses aimed at finding innovative solutions to social, environmental, economic, or educational problems. The course will be offered to six juniors, who will not only collaborate with NMH faculty and staff but will also seek out expertise from mentors at the five area colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and other institutions such as Harvard, Dartmouth, and Brown."
(as a kickoff to this program, NMH welcomed Nick Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn to an all-school assembly on Social Entrepreneurship earlier this month)
Didn’t they have EO Wilson speak? I think I read that here somewhere, that’s all kinds of amazing
Well, I’m not sure what the real reason was, but a challenge with some of these smaller schools is being able to field teams as the days of the 3-letter athlete go the way of the dodo.
As NMH still offers ice hockey and lax, I’m not buying that student safety was behind the decision.
Don’t think they cited student safety. Instead, they cited waning interest. Not sure that was the real reason either, instead suspecting it was resource allocations.
My husbands children both went to NMH and loved it
Didn’t they also have like really bad records? I thought they hadn’t had a winning record for many years running.
In sports or academics? I may play 3 varsity sports but I care more about academics and now I’m freaking out lol