Chilton House 2024–2025

Chilton House is excited to announce several enhancements for the 2024-2025 academic year, including four new faculty members, formal implementation of the Wit & Wisdom language arts program for kindergarten, expanded Sounds in Motion approach to early literacy for 3s/4s, a strengthened Student Success Team, and continued growth of Seedlings and our Partnership Series.

Little School 2024–2025

In Little School for the 2024-2025 academic year, we have focused on further strengthening our Student Success Team, instilling the 4 C’s in our students with our new lunchroom in the Cohen Center, continuing our commitment to growth in literacy, bringing back the popular Continental Math League in December, and more.

Morrow House 2024–2025

For the 2024–2025 academic year, Morrow House has focused on refining initiatives introduced last year to enrich student learning and increase student voice and agency.

Enrollment 2024–2025

For the 2024-2025 academic year, 77 new students enrolled — making our start-of-the-year enrollment 380 students. Inquiries for the 2025-2026 school year are strong, and many families have already engaged with EMS through open houses and campus tours. Applications are up 31% over last year to date. Interest in Chilton House is especially robust, with the 2s and kindergarten serving as our primary entry points for the EMS journey.

Advancement 2024–2025

The main goal of the advancement office is to help build a strong and engaged community while fundraising to meet the needs of the school. Through increased visibility, engagement, and collaboration, the team is committed to building a culture of philanthropy to support so many exciting endeavors at EMS.

Auxiliary Programs 2024–2025

The goal of Auxiliary Programs is to provide families with quality enrichment programs while extending the school hours to accommodate families’ schedules. These programs also help children to grow and develop knowledge, skills, and interests.

Community Life, Equity, and Belonging 2024–2025

The Elisabeth Morrow School’s initiatives around community life, equity, and belonging (CLEB) focus on designing equity, access, and liberation for the entire community; enriching student experiences that help them to understand, value, and benefit from the diversity of our community and beyond, navigating diversity, equity, and belonging conversations and integrating anti-bias standards in our faculty-staff professional development.

EMS prepares students for an impressive range of top-tier secondary schools.

Accustomed to a challenging academic environment, EMS students welcome the demands of competitive secondary schools and are often placed in advanced sections where they perform very well. See where our students have been accepted.

YOUR CHILD WOULD THRIVE AT EMS. SCHEDULE A TIME TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT JOINING OUR COMMUNITY.

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