Mooreland Hill School

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Mooreland Hill is an independent, co-educational day school serving central Connecticut students in grades four through nine.

For eighty years, Mooreland Hill School has prepared middle school aged children for the challenges and opportunities awaiting them not only in secondary school and college, but also in life. With a long history of caring and individual attention, the faculty of the school has provided the opportunities and the education to allow young people to explore the world around them. It is the faculty’s spirited and knowledgeable teaching that brings a sense of wonder and exuberance to the process of discovery. Read more…

Mooreland Hill begins its 80th year

Mooreland Hill School marked its 80th year when school opened on September 1. New for the first time in the school’s laudatory history of educating middle school children is the introduction of the 4/5 Multi-age Group Program (MAG). Forming a developmental bridge between childhood and adolescence, MAG offers students a unique opportunity to become effective learners and independent thinkers. Capitalizing on [...]

Defining Role of Today’s Independent Schools by Michael D. Dooman, Headmaster

As it appeared in the New Britain Herald, July 8, 2010
To the Editor:
Academic alternatives have always existed in abundance in the central Connecticut region. In addition to the public schools of all varieties and parochial schools, independent schools have flourished in Connecticut for decades and some for centuries. The existence of these independent schools is [...]