Bement School

The Bement School provides an education based on time-honored school traditions and values for children in kindergarten through ninth grade, day and boarding. From the classrooms to the dorms, we live and learn as a family, while encouraging responsibility for our own work and actions. Bement's rich, traditional curriculum motivates and challenges students with thematically coordinated courses, a renowned fine arts program, and a diverse athletic program. The student/teacher ratio is 6:1 and class size averages 12 students. Our junior boarders, ages 9 through 15, live in restored colonial homes with dorm parents who commit themselves to monitoring closely each boarder's personal as well as academic growth. Upper school students may participate in a cultural exchange program with L'Ermitage School in Maisons-Lafitte, France. The pervasive atmosphere at Bement is that of a family, learning and living together. Bement actively seeks an academically diverse, international, and multi-cultural student body. Students and adults at Bement work together to create a climate of acceptance, kindness, stimulation, and challenge in which the academic, creative, physical, and emotional growth of each child is nurtured and realized....

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