Campus Life

CA’s campus is open. During the day, students can come and go between school and the town of Concord without signing out. This part of common trust means you can grab a hot chocolate in a café during a free period or browse through a shop after school.

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The town of Concord surrounds the campus with history and literary tradition—an environment that suits CA just fine. Concord resident Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of “the shot heard ’round the world,” signaling the American Revolution. Other literary notables, including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, lived here. The town carries with distinction the legacy of these great thinkers—a tradition that CA is proud to reflect.

While the center of things at Concord Academy is academics, it is the time outside the classroom that makes up the majority of each day. Whether it’s club meetings held over dinner, driver’s education on Saturday mornings, games on Saturday afternoons, impromptu jam sessions, study groups meeting on the quad, movies in the student houses, or a Polaroid scavenger hunt in Boston, CA students enjoy their time outside of class in many constructive, relaxing, and fun ways.

— David Rost
Dean of Students and Community Life