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Shady Hill School

  • Private
  • PK, K-8
  • Cambridge, MA
  • 10 reviews
    shs.org
    (617) 520-5200
    178 Coolidge Hill
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    Shady Hill School is a private school located in Cambridge, MA. It has 525 students in grades PK, K-8 with a student-teacher ratio of 7 to 1. Tuition is $41,220 for the highest grade offered.
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    School Details

    Grades
    PK, K-8
    Students
    525
    Student-Teacher Ratio
    7:1
    National
    17:1
    Full-Time Teachers
    70
    Part-Time Teachers
    16

    Tuition

    Yearly Tuition
    $41,220
    Tuition is for the highest grade offered and may have changed for the current school year. For more information, please contact the school.
    Received Financial Aid
    22%
    Average Financial Aid
    —

    Students

    Students
    525
    Gender
    • Female
      50%
    • Male
      50%
    Student Diversity
    • White
      65.1%
    • Multiracial
      19%
    • African American
      7%
    • Asian
      5.9%
    • Hispanic
      2.7%
    • Native American
      0.2%
    • Pacific Islander
      0%
    Living in the Area
    A+
    Overall Niche Grade
    How are grades calculated?
    1. Cost of Living
      C-
    2. Good for Families
      A+
    3. Housing
      C
    Median Household Income
    $125,851
    National
    $55,322
    Median Rent
    $2,292
    National
    $949
    Median Home Value
    $1,002,410
    National
    $184,700
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    I can only speak of my experience of going to Shady Hill many years ago, 1950-1961, but I have kept up my awareness of how the school has done since then. I still sense the values I learned there as a child, and which I think are still at the heart of this school, ones I still cherish: kindness, openness, a love for learning and excellence, an appreciation of art, music, and crafts, enthusiasm for sports and the outdoors, a warm interest in the diverse traditions of humanity. I went to Choate and to Harvard, and then to graduate schools in the U.S. and in Europe, and I still look back to Shady Hill as probably the best school I ever attended in many ways. Highly recommended!
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    My three children graduated from Shady Hill and had a remarkable experience there. Shady Hill developed in them a love of learning and the ability to think creatively to problem solve. The teachers are master practitioners who care deeply about their students. Though they went on to excellent high schools and colleges, they are most fond of Shady Hill and credit the foundations laid there for their later academic success.
    Shady Hill School—more specifically its teachers, students, and community—gave me a love of learning for its own sake which persists to this very day. It was demanding but not competitive. It prepared me well for Milton Academy, Harvard and life thereafter as a professional. Not incidentally, some of my closest friends are those I made in the ten years I was there.