Mount Hermon School

Northfield Mount Hermon
Seal of Northfield Mount Hermon
Location
Mount Hermon, MA USA
Information
School type	Private, boarding
Motto	Discere et Vivere (To Learn and To Live)
Established	1879
Founder	Dwight L. Moody
Head of school	Peter B. Fayroian
Faculty	95
Enrollment	655 total 82% boarding 18% day
Average class size	11 students
Student to teacher ratio	5:1
Campus	Rural, 215 acres (core campus), 1,565 acres (4.5 km²) (total land holdings)
Color(s)	Maroon and light blue
Song	Jerusalem
Athletics	67 interscholastic sports
Mascot	Hogger
Team name	Hoggers
Endowment	$136 million (as of June 30, 2013)
Website	http://www.nmhschool.org

Northfield Mount Hermon, commonly referred to as NMH, is a co-educational college-preparatory boarding and day school for students in grades 9–12 and postgraduates. The school is located on the banks of the Connecticut River in Gill, Massachusetts, United States.

Originally two neighboring schools — the Northfield School for Girls, founded in 1879, and the Mount Hermon School for Boys, founded in 1881 — NMH merged into a single institution in 1972 and consolidated on one campus in 2006.

NMH is a member of the Eight Schools Association, established in 1973 comprising Phillips Academy (known as Andover), Phillips Exeter Academy (known as Exeter), Choate Rosemary Hall (known as Choate), Deerfield Academy, Hotchkiss School, Lawrenceville School, and St. Paul's School.

NMH offers nearly 200 courses, including AP and honors classes in every discipline. Each semester, students take three major courses, each 80 minutes long, as opposed to five 50-minute classes which are more typical of high schools. This "College Model Academic Program" allows students to spend more time with their teachers and immerse themselves more deeply in academic subjects. NMH employs 95 teaching faculty members, 66 percent of whom have advanced degrees. The average class size at NMH is 11 students; the student-to-teacher ratio is 5 to 1.

Students are required to participate in co-curricular activities every semester; these include athletic teams, performing-arts ensembles, volunteer work on and off-campus, and activities such as working for one of the school's four student publications. Students may join an extensive array of extracurricular clubs, organizations, and affinity groups.

Students involved in visual and performing arts courses, as well as NMH's dozen performing ensembles, are supported by the Rhodes Arts Center, a 65,000-square-foot (6,000 m2) Gold LEED-certified facility that opened in fall 2008. The RAC houses two concert performance spaces, a black-box theater, two dance studios, an art gallery, art classrooms/studios, music practice rooms, and offices.