Welcome

Welcome to Collegiate School! 

It is my great honor to serve as Collegiate’s 30th Head of School. Since joining this remarkable community, each time I walk through the Red Doors, I am inspired by our students, families, faculty, staff, alumni, the board, and everyone who loves this School.

Founded in 1628 and located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, we are a School for boys serving students in grades K–12. Our youngest boys arrive in Kindergarten to begin their school experience, and our oldest boys finish 12th grade on the cusp of adulthood. Together in one building, our boys learn and grow together. This is a School full of wonder, joy, and academic rigor of the highest order. Our boys develop lifelong friendships, love of learning, and curiosity—hallmarks of the Collegiate brotherhood.

Collegiate has forever believed in the life of teaching and learning, and it continues to develop today as it did in the past, with extraordinary intellectual passion and scholarly appetite: in action, in how it lives, and in what it does. At Collegiate, “character is higher than intellect,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, but the deep relationship between the two is irrefutable. Mission-strong, Collegiate has a wide embrace.

We are a school with a long history—in 2028, we will celebrate our 400th anniversary—and we remain engaged in preparing our students for the world of today and tomorrow. We are proud to be one of the oldest, continually running schools in the United States and to draw upon the past to inform how we evolve and change. Our past heartens us as we move into the future.  

I hope you enjoy learning about Collegiate’s wonderful community.