High Mowing School is a Waldorf boarding and day school with 124 students from fifteen states and eight countries. Developing rigorous, imaginative thinking is at the core of the High Mowing math, science and humanities courses. In addition, students have the opportunity to be engaged in a wide selection of studio and performing arts, digital arts, naturalist courses, sports and other practical activities.

In 1942, Mrs. Beulah Emmet, inspired by the work and thought of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), an Austrian philosopher, scientist, and founder of the Waldorf School movement, converted her family country home in Southern New Hampshire into a Waldorf High School. The old and charming hilltop farm ideally suited the warm, home-like atmosphere she sought for her students, and it even suggested the school's name (mowing is an old New England term for "hayfield").

From its beginnings over 80 years ago, Waldorf education has become the fastest growing independent school movement in the world with over 150 Waldorf schools in North America and over 900 worldwide. Waldorf education derives its very life from an understanding that each human being - endowed with profound spiritual, moral and physical capacities - enters the world in order to find a chosen destiny in life. The curriculum thus springs from the nature of the unfolding human being, addressing inner capacities in the student that are most alive and active at a given age. In the high school years, we are mainly concerned with the new capacities of thought and independent judgment, often accompanied by a welter of unsettled feelings and idealistic strivings.

Our goal is to help young adults go out into the world possessed of a certain surety, an inner balance and confidence, along with academic knowledge and practical skills to meet life and its infinite possibilities.