ABOUT

Our firm commitment to the arts is loudly stated upon entering the Walters Arts Center. A depth of offerings in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts ensure students ably access that part of themselves that only the arts can touch. Our annual ARTworks visiting artist-in-residency program is one of the school’s most inspiring traditions. As a student recently shared with me, “I don’t have to worry about what other people think when I share my work. They all know it’s part of who I am.” The arts are alive and well at Holland Hall.

Solidly focused on good sportsmanship and healthy competition, our athletic teams compete at a remarkably high level. Almost 65 percent of our coaching staff is comprised from the faculty, allowing for the ethos and expectations from the academic day to infuse into practices and games. Strong character, perseverance, attitude, and resilience form the basis of what we hope to engender in our athletes. Focusing on these aspects of excellence, we believe, creates an outstanding athletic experience.

As an Episcopal school, our inclusive, ecumenical approach highly respects students and families from all religious traditions. Attended once a week, chapel is an important time for being in community together. Led by clergy, chapel talks reinforce our commitment to forming a strong moral foundation in each child with a deep sense of social responsibility. Service learning opportunities abound for students in every grade level.

As the agrarian writer, Wendell Berry, so aptly stated, “A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members — among them the need to need one another.”

I hope you will come and see how Holland Hall is so much more than just a school.

In Community,

J.P. Culley
Head of School
jculley@hollandhall.org