The Pennington School

Pennington covers the Middle School (Grades 6 to 8) and the Upper School (Grades 9 to 12) with a college-preparatory curriculum, interdisciplinary and applied science courses, the Cervone Center for Learning and personal advising.

Pennington is guided by honour and a commitment to ensuring that every student in its diverse community feels they belong, with outdoor education and sustainability woven into school life.

Facilities include a brand-new fitness centre, a renovated aquatics centre, athletic fields, science and applied science labs, classrooms and residential halls for boarders.

Families have access to financial assistance, the Cervone Center for Learning for students with learning differences, international student services, advising and mentoring, and summer programmes.

Pennington's boarding programme houses students in residence halls with residential faculty, and international student services support boarders from overseas.

The Pennington School has run the Edmund V. Cervone Center for Learning since 1975, a programme of academic support for intellectually capable students with diagnosed learning difficulties. The school explains that it was created so that bright students with learning disabilities could follow a college-preparatory programme instead of being excluded from it, and that teaching should take into account the different ways in which children listen, read, write, think, remember, organise and pay attention. Alongside the Center for Learning, the academic support offer includes a Writing Center, academic skills and mathematics tutorial classes and English as a Second Language for international students. Student groups such as the Learning Difference Alliance and the Neurodiversity Alliance also form part of school life.

Students can choose among 45 team sports as well as the arts, outdoor education and sustainability programmes, summer opportunities and student clubs.