Upper School

Beginning with his or her first day at The Buckley School, the student is engaged in Dr. Buckley’s 4-fold plan of education. Students are offered a strong liberal arts curriculum which prepares them for college. More importantly, their academic experiences engage them in thinking and learning. It remains the school’s wish that students become balanced human beings.

It is believed that the emotional release and creativity people experience via art are important to human existence. Our students are able to become practitioners of various arts, as well as appreciators of them. The school holds that the classical reference to a sound mind in a sound body is paramount. Active participation in physical activity is coupled with training in social skills. The ideas of sportsmanship, collegiality, team membership, and the value of belonging to something greater than oneself cannot be overstated.

Perhaps the most important aspect of a quality education is the development of character. The school feels that it does not profit society to release into it skillful graduates with promise, but in fact, unexamined lives. Human values are embedded in the curriculum in every discipline and are given primacy through vehicles such as “The Buckley Commitment.”