Welcome to York School!

We are very pleased to have the opportunity to share with you the many benefits of the York experience and its tradition of excellence. We invite you to learn about the academic, athletic, and artistic opportunities available, but even more importantly, we hope you will get a sense of the heart of the school—the unique community of students, staff, and parents that make York School a very special place.

As an independent school, we offer the kind of individualized attention, small class sizes, and rigorous college preparatory curriculum that produces a record of success in school, in work, in further academic pursuits, and in life. Yet York is so much more. For over fifty years, York School has been an intentional community of creative, independent thinkers whose academic achievement has been unmatched, but who have also embraced a school culture that values honesty, respect, and responsibility. We celebrate individual talents and respect the diversity of gifts and perspectives. We believe that a small school is the optimal environment for the students to grow and learn and to experience a community that is intentional in its diversity. At York each individual student is known and cared for, challenged, and nurtured.

The York learning experience doesn’t stop at the classroom door; it extends to the playing field, the art studio, and the performance stage where they encounter the rich benefits of exposure to new ideas, cultures, and individuals in a socio-economically, ethnically, and religiously diverse community. Students value their peers as well as their teachers, and their many accomplishments - from National Merit recognition to athletic honors, from Science Fair prizes to artistic achievement - are the direct result of the strength of these relationships.

Assisted by a comprehensive college counseling program, our graduates leave York prepared for their next level of success, and the track record of our graduates is as impressive as the achievements of our students; perhaps most importantly, our alumni consistently report that they were not only well prepared for college but that unlike many of their friends, they LOVED their high school experience.

We invite you to become a part of the York experience.

Sincerely,

Chuck Harmon