Emma Willard School is a place to discover what it means to be your best self. We commend you on taking the initiative to seek out the perfect school for you. By doing so, you already show that you are ready for something more than the high school experience.
Madame Emma Hart Willard founded her school on the basis of providing girls with a first-class education that challenged, inspired, and enabled them to serve and shape their worlds.
More than 200 years later, Emma Willard School proudly continues to carry on this mission.
Emma Willard School's curriculum allows girls to focus their future aspirations, and equips them with the interdisciplinary knowledge competitive colleges are looking for.
Our academic program offers more than 140 courses, including Advanced Placement options, where girls engage in discourse that brings context to high-level concepts and understanding of the world we live in. Personalized study programs enable girls to dive deep into a topic or field of their choosing, and gain hands-on experience.
Education at Emma isn’t limited to the classroom—it’s woven into the fabric of our community. With girls from around the world and across the United States, and faculty and staff with a wide breadth of life experiences, you will broaden your perspective the moment you walk onto campus.
Bonds created between Emma Girls in the residence and dining halls, while practicing for an athletics match or arts performance, at one of our many cherished traditions, and all the little moments in between, define many girls’ Emma experience.
After a year unlike any other, we are delighted to bring back our in-person GirlSummer Day, in-person Writer's Retreat, and a new Virtual English Language and Leadership Program.
Our GirlSummer Day and Writer’s Retreat programs will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. You can count on many elective offerings with extra measures in place to keep our community safe.
These include:
Social Distancing guidelines, supported by each camper assigned to a campus “team”
Mask policy adherence, by all campers and staff
Capped enrollment for each Session, to ensure adherence to State gathering guidelines
On-site COVID surveillance testing of all campers and staff each week
Contact tracing
Each camper and staff member must have a negative PCR test before the first day of the camp session
Please be mindful that we will not be offering before-care or after-care. This is so we have ample time to do a thorough campus cleaning each afternoon.
We are thrilled by the vision of our campus enlivened by the laughter and joy of 120 in-person campers. Registration began on March 1 with limited space available. A waitlist will be available. We look forward to seeing you this summer!