The Upper School’s five-day boarding program provides the ideal combination of school and academic concentration during the week coupled with family and home life on the weekends. The program houses up to thirty co-ed students and provides the unique opportunity to enjoy boarding school life while still maintaining close contact with one’s family.

The small community of boarding students enjoys separate, single sex wings that share common lounges and study halls. Students are directly advised by six faculty members who live on the boarding corridor, and they enjoy close relationships with all the campus’ residential faculty.

While only a small portion of the student population takes part in the five-day boarding program, this element of the school life shapes the entire community, creating a true residential culture that extends from evening library hours to breakfast and dinner on campus, and the sense of community gathering that derive from these. The boarding atmosphere benefits boarding and day students like through the relationships it forges between students and faculty, and the sense of “home” and community it offers to all.

Boarding students are encouraged to participate in many extracurricular activities. Those interested in athletics participate in a full sports program that includes sixty-two teams, numerous playing fields, six tennis courts, three squash courts, a fitness center , indoor swimming pool, new football and track & field facility, and a new 3.2 mile cross country trail.

Boarding also makes it easy for students to participate in evening activities at Hackley, including drama rehearsals, music performances, Community Council, and community service programs.

Boarders who live in a city enjoy their five days outdoors on a safe and spacious 285 acre campus, arriving at Hackley after supper Sunday evening or early Monday morning and returning home Friday night.

These are some areas where our boarding students come from: Manhattan, Staten Island, NY, Tuxedo Park, NY, Bronx, NY, Yonkers, NY, Saddle River, NJ, Greenwich, CT