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.
Please be sure that your camper comes with a full water bottle and a backpack. Please be sure your child in the morning with a generous application of sunscreen. Due to possible allergic reactions, it is recommended that your child bring their own sunscreen for re-application during the day; the sunscreen should be kept in your camper’s backpack. Your camper should have breakfast before arrival.
Emma Dining Services provides many healthy and tasty options for campers, all of which is clearly labeled. Lunch options include salads, deli sandwiches, hot options like macaroni and cheese and veggie burgers, pita and hummus, and desserts. Drinks include water and lemonade on Friday’s. No soda is provided.
If you need to pick up your camper before the end of the day, please let us know during drop off or by emailing girlsummer@emmawillard.org that morning. You will then meet your camper in the GirlSummer office in the Mott Gymnasium at the designated time.
We will not be offering before-care or after-care, for the 2022 GirlSummer Program. This is so we have ample time to do a thorough campus cleaning each afternoon.
Please pay close attention to your email as we will email you with further instructions for picking up your camper should there need to be an early dismissal.
An enrolled camper/student may only be withdrawn upon written notice received by the school if such notice is received on or before May 1, 2022. If written notice is received on or before May 1, 2022 you will receive a full refund of the program tuition and additional options minus a 10% processing fee. If you decide to cancel your daughter’s enrollment/application in writing after May 1, 2022, you will forfeit 50% of the total program tuition and any optional fees paid. In the event of a health or safety emergency and/or pandemic, you will be entitled to a refund of any portion of the camper’s/student’s tuition or fees if the summer program is discontinued.
Welcome to Emma Willard School, a private day and boarding high school for girls in Troy, NY, and a leader in girls' education for over 200 years.
PLEASE NOTE: All visitors to campus must check in with Campus Safety, which can be found at the red flag entrance to Sage Hall (Pawling Ave. entrance).