Northfield School

read moreNorthfield offers a Liberal Arts education to children grades 6th-12th. Northfield students are taught how to learn rather than what to learn. Through practicing the progression of knowledge through grammar, logic, and rhetoric (the Trivium), Northfield faculty guide the students as they construct a toolkit for lifelong learning. At Northfield, we believe that one end of education is service. On Wednesdays, Northfield teachers and students trade textbooks for tools and go to work. We help local charities, businesses, and neighbors.

read moreIf you want to see what we are like in person, please come for a day! You can get to know the students and faculty, and see what our classes are like. If you are interested in shadowing, please submit the form on our Contact page We would love to meet you.

read moreThe middle school curriculum at Northfield is built to familiarize students with the fundamental aspects of the subjects they will explore in greater depth in their later years at NFS. This is what we call the grammar stage of the Trivium - the stage in which we learn the facts. As the Northfield student progresses in their education, they are challenged not only with knowing the facts of the subjects they study, but also with ordering and relating them through the process of logic. Finally, a Northfield student learns how to critically insert their own voice into the ideas they have been ordering and relating through the logic phase.