Many things at Moses Brown are exactly as they were when you left. The school has maintained its Quaker heritage with help from their Quaker in residence, Galen Hamann. Meeting for Worship is still held once a week and people have the opportunity to participate in the adjacent meeting house of the Providence Society of Friends. If you've forgotten, the school motto is “For the Honor of Truth” and the school song is "Beneath the Elms" a reference to the large grove of elm trees that still surrounds the school to this day. However many things have changed. See the other tabs for the changes happening on our historic campus.
The curriculum may have changed slightly since you have graduated. Ninth and tenth graders are offered limited flexibility in their courses, aiming to expose them to a varied selection of topics. Juniors and seniors, however, are much freer to flexibly select electives and other such courses. English is the only subject mandated through four years in the Upper School, though it is also the department with the greatest variety of electives offered. Students must complete up to Precalculus in order to satisfy their Math requirement, and study a single language for three years, and lab sciences for two. There is a requirement for a comparative religions class. Moses Brown offers AP classes in Statistics, Calculus, Spanish Language, French Language, Latin Vergil, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and more. Students are also required to take a years worth of art classes. In addition the Co-Curricular program remains a cornerstone of the Moses Brown experience. Students are required to participate in varied school activities whether as a member of a sports team, an actor in a play, or a student in a dance class. This still helps to foster community engagement.
The curriculum may have changed slightly since you have graduated. Ninth and tenth graders are offered limited flexibility in their courses, aiming to expose them to a varied selection of topics. Juniors and seniors, however, are much freer to flexibly select electives and other such courses. English is the only subject mandated through four years in the Upper School, though it is also the department with the greatest variety of electives offered. Students must complete up to Precalculus in order to satisfy their Math requirement, and study a single language for three years, and lab sciences for two. There is a requirement for a comparative religions class. Moses Brown offers AP classes in Statistics, Calculus, Spanish Language, French Language, Latin Vergil, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and more. Students are also required to take a years worth of art classes. In addition the Co-Curricular program remains a cornerstone of the Moses Brown experience. Students are required to participate in varied school activities whether as a member of a sports team, an actor in a play, or a student in a dance class. This still helps to foster community engagement.