Cardigan Mountain School is an all-boys junior boarding school with an enrollment of 225 students typically coming from 20-25 states and 12-15 foreign countries. Through a traditional, pre-college preparatory academic program that is both challenging and supportive along with extensive co-curricular offerings in the arts and athletics, we prepare middle school boys for success in secondary school and beyond. The School’s core values of compassion, integrity, respect, and courage are at the center of our residential community and fully integrated into the day-to-day life of students and faculty alike, and leadership and global awareness are also key focal points of our overall program. During the spring trimester of Grade 8 the students begin our comprehensive secondary school placement process which continues through March of Grade 9, with many of our graduates matriculating at some of the most selective schools in the US, including Brooks School, Kent School, Lawrenceville School, Middlesex School, Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul’s School.
During the spring trimester of Grade 8 the students begin our comprehensive secondary school placement process which continues through March of Grade 9, with many of our graduates matriculating at some of the most selective schools in the US, including Andover, Choate, Deerfield, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, Middlesex, Milton, St. Paul’s, and Taft.
Unique Characteristics
Signature programs include PEAKS®, Personalized Education for the Acquisition of Knowledge, helping each boy understand his own unique learning style and develop executive functioning skills, and the Gates Invention and Innovation Program and Competition, for which we are one of only two middle schools in the US to offer this program.