Located in the heart of New England, Loomis Chaffee is a co-educational boarding school for 745 students in grades 9 through 12 and postgraduates. Our students, who represent through residency and citizenship more than 30 states and 45 countries, bring a great diversity of experience, thought, and talent to our campus. Together with our faculty, staff, parents, and alumni, they form a welcoming, kind, and inclusive community where individuality thrives; here, you will be accepted and celebrated for who you are and who you want to become. At Loomis, our mission is to inspire in all our students a commitment to the best self and the common good. To do this we augment our rigorous academic curriculum and outstanding athletics, arts, and co-curricular programs with a focus on teaching you how to be an effective and engaged citizen in your local, national, and international communities. We know students want to make a positive difference in the world — they want to solve problems big and small, and they want to do it now. We provide them the opportunities, tools, and guidance to take their learning and put it to immediate good use.
What Makes Us Unique
A defining characteristic of a Loomis Chaffee education is the collaborative, innovative culture that pervades campus, where five centers provide opportunities for students to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to make a positive difference in the lives of others. This network of interdisciplinary centers, each with distinct areas of expertise, brings students and faculty together from across campus to find creative solutions to problems worth solving. Our centers include the Alvord Center for Global & Environmental Studies; the Norton Center for the Common Good; the Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching; the Pearse Hub for Innovation; and the Center for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging. Loomis’ signature programs include our Writing Initiatives and Sophomore Writing Workshop; Digital and Computational Learning; Guided Research Projects in Science and Humanities; Global & Environmental Studies Certificate program; Gilchrist Fellowships; Norton Fellows; Seminars in the Best Self and Common Good; and the Innovation Trimester (I-Tri)
Campus Highlights
Athletics
58 sports
Arts
See our website to see more clubs, organizations, arts, and athletic offerings at Loomis! & Ceramics
Campus
300 acres
Key Stats
Boarding70%
International12%
Students of Color40%
Founded1914
Campus Size300 acres
Nearby AirportsBradley International Airport
Global Diversity
Students represent through citizenship and/or residency 44 countries.