Shipley’s Upper School provides a demanding, varied, and supportive program for over 300 students in the ninth through twelfth grades. We offer a wide array of honors, standard, and advanced placement courses and students are encouraged to challenge themselves at the levels most appropriate to their skills, past performance, and interests. Our commitment to student-based scheduling allows students, along with their families and advisors, to create increasingly more individualized programs over the course of four years. Each year students are required to take five major courses of study as well as various minors.

We are committed to the development of each student’s autonomy and judgment. Our teachers, coaches, and advisors create the balance of challenge, support, and encouragement that fosters the independence and the intellectual, artistic, athletic, and moral development of our students. From the first conference about course selection for ninth grade to the final meeting of senior seminars in the college counseling process, we expect students to think for themselves and to understand the consequences of their actions. We believe that common sense is often the ideal antidote for uncertainty, and that truthfulness must be present in all of the interactions among school, family, and student.

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