NEW JERSEY

All Saints Episcopal Day School
707 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-792-0736, www.allsaintsdayschool.org 
K - 4th grade 

The Hudson School
601 Park Avenue, Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-659-8335, www.thehudsonschool.org
5th - 12th grade
In 1978, the state of New Jersey directed its school districts to provide programs to better accommodate their gifted and talented students. At the same time, a group of educators and parents in Hoboken, concerned that their children in Hudson County weren't being sufficiently challenged to reach their full potential, initiated what they intended to be a modest demonstration project to help the local school district improve its curriculum.

Eighteen students and six teachers started classes that fall, hoping to bring something useful back to public education. But by the end of the school year, with all the reports in, everyone arrived at the same conclusion - a community had formed, around a passion for learning. Something special had been created, and there was too much momentum not to carry on. And so The Hudson School had begun.

The Hudson School is celebrating its twenty-seventh anniversary, and we continue to exist for only one reason - to celebrate our passion for teaching and learning.

We offer small classes and individual attention. The coursework is challenging and makes for a thorough preparation for college and beyond. Our students, by and large, come here because they feel it's "okay" to be serious about their academic careers. We believe we have discovered what's right in education.

Our fifty faculty members, many of whom have advanced degrees, bring a wide range of diverse experiences and perspectives to the school. As a group, they all share one distinct quality-a profound commitment to teaching. They see themselves not only as practicing experts in their fields, but also as mentors-role models for students discovering themselves. And so, at The Hudson School, you tend to feel a kind of relationship between teacher and student-an old fashioned affectionate human bond, if you will-that has become all too rare in our modern lives.

Overall, The Hudson School is a place where students find themselves among others who are excited about learning and supportive of intellectual risk-taking, and who value the importance of independent thinking, curiosity and community service.

Montclair Cooperative School