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Admission & Financial Aid

We’re delighted you’re considering the Campus School of Smith College for your child, and can’t wait to give you more information! We believe in the powerful impact of a strong early education, and would love to help give that experience to your child. Financial aid is also available—it’s also our belief that education should be accessible and equitable.

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Delight Drives Discovery

Choosing the Campus School

What does a child discover on a college campus?

A child’s earliest years are also the most developmentally formative ones, and the habits of mind established in elementary school can shape the trajectory of an academic and intellectual life. Just as crucially, early classroom environments indelibly imprint children socially and emotionally.

As the lab school of Smith College, Campus School provides a truly unique atmosphere—one that is at once close-knit and wide-horizoned, to stimulate both emotional security and intellectual zeal.

Nestled on idyllic college grounds, Campus School is a haven of small classes, close connections, and cozy spaces—a safe and steady launchpad into the big ideas, exciting resources, and intellectual energy of the college that surrounds and elevates the school.

Our third-graders can start their study of rivers in our classrooms, then venture across campus to observe the mechanics of sediment deposits in a Smith geology lab silt tank. A year later, our fourth-graders may begin exploring the ecology of the rain forest in our computer lab, then visit the campus greenhouse to examine firsthand the kinds of smooth-barked plants that thrive in wet conditions.

As a small-world elementary school on the campus of a world-class college, Campus School creates a safe space for even our youngest learners to engage with dazzling new concepts, embrace real intellectual vigor, and develop an expansive sense of possibility that serves from from kindergarten to college and beyond.

A young girl crouches down with a magnifying glass to look at a plant in the Smith College Botanic Garden.

From Our Director

Welcome to Campus School of Smith College. We are happy that you are interested in our school, as we believe Campus School is unique in its mission and philosophy, and a wonderful place for children.

We design the admission process to be as efficient and user-friendly as possible and pride ourselves on the personal attention we give all interested families as they explore our school.

This process begins with an important question: is Campus School the right school for your child? Ascertaining the match between child and school is the most important outcome of the admission process. We are not the right school for every child but for families who align with our mission and educational approach, we have an almost 100 year history of success and many happy and successful graduates to point to.

The first step in the process is to review this web site, where you will find important information about our school, programs, and community. We then encourage you to fill out the inquiry form, which will formally initiate the admission process.

Please review our application requirements and the application process.

Another good place to start is with our admission open houses, which provide opportunities to learn more about our school and see us in action.

We look forward to getting to know you and your child!

Sincerely,
Rachel Wilson
Director of Admission & Financial Aid