"Our goal is to create a school where students are happily engaged in their education, encouraged to take risks, and challenging themselves and each other. We've come to refer to this as 'The Brookwood Way,' and we believe it gives children the best chance to become confident life-long learners."
-- Headmaster John Peterman
About Brookwood School
HISTORY. Founded in 1956, Brookwood School is a non-profit, non-denominational, coed day school for Grades PreK through eight. Brookwood has been a respected leader in education for over 50 years.
LOCATION. On 30 wooded acres on Boston’s North Shore, the Brookwood campus is just minutes from Route 128 on the Beverly/Manchester line.
STUDENTS. Brookwood educates approximately 400 students of diverse backgrounds enrolled in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade Eight.
FACULTY. Brookwood employs 46 full-time and 14 part-time teachers. Our student/teacher ratio is 8:1. Four of five faculty members hold advanced degrees.
ACADEMICS. Brookwood offers the traditional academic areas of focus, an exceptionally strong creative arts program, and a variety of signature programs. For full curricular descriptions visit the "Curriculum at Brookwood" page under the “Academics” tab.
FACILITIES. The Brookwood campus features a 15,000 volume library and learning center; a state-of-the-art science department with four laboratory classrooms and a 1,000-square-foot “science gym” for experiment and study; the Dodge Writing Center; two acoustically-designed music classrooms, a professional recording studio and several practice rooms; three art classrooms and a dedicated clay studio with kiln; two computer labs; a four-classroom world language center with a 14-station computer lab; two athletic fields; two gymnasiums; athletic locker rooms; a dining room; and multiple classrooms for every grade level.
MEALS. Brookwood provides lunch daily in the Moniz Dining Room, where students and teachers dine together. Snacks are served every morning before recess and in the mid-afternoon.
TECHNOLOGY. More than 230 computers can be found at Brookwood. In addition to both Mac and PC computer labs, there are laptops with wireless capabilities, digital cameras, scanners and many award-winning software titles. Supervised Internet access is available everywhere via our T1 access line. More than 15 classrooms feature interactive SmartBoards.
ATHLETICS. Interscholastic sports begin in seventh grade. Brookwood fields interscholastic Varsity and JV teams in field hockey, boys’ and girls’ soccer, boys’ and girls’ lacrosse. Younger students participate in physical education classes.