Academics at Dublin School are engaging, relevant, and rigorous. Academic work here aims to prepare students for college, and for the journey of building rich and positive lives. Our academic program grows from the legacy of Paul Lehmann, and his emphasis on hard work and high standards, and the values of progressive education in the midst of a small New England village, surrounded by the beauty of the forests, Mount Monadnock, and Dublin Lake. Education here is based on Dublin’s early belief in involving every student in taking responsibility and caring for the school, the town, and the larger community of all humans, and for the natural world. Dublin’s commitment to incorporating many kinds of people and learners, to creating many kinds of learning experiences inmany kinds work, and to the growth of healthy adolescents, all derive from this legacy. Our academic program invites students to read ever more deeply, to write and speak with increasing effectiveness, to solve problems creatively and efficiently, to explore scientific fields, to learn languages, and to draw, to make music, and to be moved by works of beauty. Students leave Dublin School as strong individuals who are ready to participate in the globalizing society of the 21st century.

Teachers at Dublin School care about connecting with each student, and help each student develop  connections with course material. Dublin School’s academic program helps students build knowledge and understandings about the world, and fosters students’ natural intellectual and emotional growth. Our courses utilize a variety of teaching methods, traditional and progressive, and find ways to ask students to do creative and reflective work, as well as to write essays and take tests. We help students develop analytic, organizational, and interpersonal skills which will lead to academic success, but also to develop the full range of learning and communication skills: using technology, giving oral presentations, or portraying learning in visual formats, for example. We believe in recognizing each student’s potential, and we are flexible in order to support and challenge every student; yet Dublin also has a high degree of structure and accountability. Dublin’s courses include essential academic fields, like Biology, Algebra, Spanish, English, and History. But we also offer a large array of more specialized electives, which are developed in response to students’ curiosity or teachers’ passions. Students can also initiate independent studies.  Our rigorous graduation requirements ensure that students leave Dublin with a strong basis of knowledge and skills, and a range of creative and expressive experiences. Academics at Dublin are exciting, for they seek to empower students to seek truth and act with courage as they create meaningful lives and a better future for our world.