The community of Montpelier is committed to educating its children so that they may lead productive and meaningful lives.

Montpelier High School aspires to provide all of its students with those intellectual, practical, social skills the ability to think critically, to solve complex problems, and to work well with others that will be necessary in any future endeavor and also to provide opportunities for each student to realize his or her unique creative potential. In educating our students for the future, we embrace modernity thoughtfully. While it is important for every student to have a skilled understanding of modern technology, we also cherish the traditional sources of human contentment and meaning playing, reading, expressing oneself through language and art; working with tools growing, preparing and eating healthy foods; enjoying camaraderie and one’s own vitality through athletic activity; making decisions and celebrating as a community; living in harmony with nature. We cherish, as well, the legacy of fortitude, self-reliance, and neighborliness that we have inherited from previous generations of Vermonters. We believe that a sense of belonging and responsibility to the community are the foundation of thoughtful citizenship. Montpelier High School is dedicated to enlivening in its students those human qualities kindness, generosity, honesty, perseverance, self-reflection, self-respect and respect for others, a sense of humor, a “vivid sense of the beautiful”*, and an abiding gratitude for life that are essential to personal fulfillment and the maintenance of a free, just, and healthy society.

*Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, “Educating for Independent Thought” (from the New York Times, October, 1952) Bonanza Books, 1954