The Community School is a private non-sectarian co-educational day school serving 30 students in grades 6 to 12. Our students are bright, highly motivated young people from 15 towns in central New Hampshire and western Maine.

We believe learning is a rigorous and joyful pursuit which calls on each individual's talents and interests, and promotes appreciation of the interconnectedness of people and places. At The Community School, our mission is to support students on their individual learning paths within a caring and respectful community.

Student Work

To see the latest student work from 2009-2010, click here: http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=120161

Spring “Trashion”

"Tabouleh, Jolly Ranchers, and Anchovies" gown, Ruby Nelson

"Tabouleh, Jolly Ranchers, and Anchovies" gown, Ruby Nelson

Cynthia Robinson's instructions to her art classes

Cynthia Robinson's instructions to her art classes

Bug hat, Gess Hodges

Plated corset made of soda cans, Beth Flood Fairlamb

Plated corset made of soda cans, Beth Flood Fairlamb

Ringmaster "V" hats, Schyler Nutting

Ringmaster "V" hats, Schyler Nutting and others

Here you’ll see a range of student work created at The Community School. Some of it is ephemeral: a pot of soup made from vegetables harvested by a fall class, an apple pie made with care for our Harvest Fest. Other work comes in the form of ecology experiments (a match array), physics experiments (a stringed instrument), or history classes (a Vikings puppet show). Art adorns canvas bags and tabletops, as well as gracing Theater Room walls.

: Self portraits, February 2009

: Pen and ink, Jared

: Jared’s double-necked electric guitar

: Marc’s handiwork on a bog bridge

: Cubby room expression

: Bridge created for Colonial Architecture

: Stringed instruments designed in History of Music class

: Art room displays

: More block prints

: Geometry takes shape as origami

: Young Adult Literature participants dramatize their reading

: Viking history comes alive through puppetry

: Wreath made for Holiday Open House

: Full school enjoying student-cooked lunch

: Group drawing of Halloween skeleton

: Schyler makes progress on Winter Ecology’s quinzee

: Sawyer with stone and steel sculpture

: Ronny shares a perfect apple pie at Harvest Fest

: Testing out Gess’ potato gun project (English class!)

: Painted tabletop

: Leaf designs: positive and negative space

: Leaf contrast, detail

: Killian etches slate in history class

: Giant chessboard in the works

: Soup cooked up by the Harvest Class

: Grace’s stool

: Handblown glass vase by Dylan

: Eco-art students scavenged materials to create sculptures

: Dylan took a month in Denmark to study glassblowing

: Curtis with bold colors and designs

: An array of matches simulating a forest burn

: Iron and forge

: Block prints on canvas and paper

: “Tabouleh, Jolly Ranchers, and Anchovies” gown, Ruby Nelson

: Ringmaster “V” hats, Schyler Nutting

: Plated corset made of soda cans, Beth Flood Fairlamb

: Cynthia Robinson’s instructions to her art classes