Seeing Beyond What Exists

Why found a new school?

Older models of educating our children no longer suffice due to these interlocking challenges:

  • The absence of shared facts and understandings

  • Widespread preference for simplistic solutions

  • Increasing social fragmentation and political polarization

  • Unequal access to educational opportunities

School is not a staging ground for life; it is the arch that frames it.

Now imagine…

a school where students crave learning and understand its purpose in their lives;

a school where learning from expert professionals happens both in and outside the classroom;

a school where engagement with society’s most intractable problems offers students a window to innovative solutions;

a school that mirrors the socioeconomic tapestry of New York City, giving all of its students access to expert collaborations, immersive travel, and new pathways to nuanced understandings in a world sorely in need of them.

How will The Arch School be different?

  • The Arch School will integrate on-campus learning with experiential opportunities to learn about real-world problems and solutions, preparing students to play leadership roles in addressing societal problems.

  • The Arch School will engage students in six-week learning modules best suited for addressing essential questions within multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional frameworks of analysis.

  • The Arch School’s financial model, including robust financial aid and sliding scale tuition, will enable the broadest range of students to learn in the company of expert practitioners.

  • The Arch School calendar will reimagine summer as an opportunity for experiential learning domestically and abroad, mitigating summer learning losses and the burdens on families imposed by the traditional education system.

  • The Arch School will intentionally work to counteract social fragmentation and isolation by empowering students to link and rebuild communities, fostering their participation in expert networks, and equipping them to understand our interconnectedness and interdependence as an enduring source of personal and public strength.

Our Mission

The Arch School empowers students to engage in courageous and creative inquiries, to envision ethical and effective solutions to complex problems, and to contribute to new paths to understanding in ways that emphasize and reinforce our shared community, humanity, and interdependence.

Join us at Arch, a new path in education, a new school for the public good.

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