The Seven Hills School Hillsdale Campus

Sharing our Hillsdale campus with the Seven Hills Middle and Upper Schools, today’s Seven Hills Lotspeich School carries on the tradition begun by Helen Lotspeich in 1916 when she founded the Clifton Open-Air School in her home to provide boys and girls an education designed to foster their natural curiosity, their creativity, and their instinctive joy in learning. The Lotspeich faculty builds on that tradition by orienting early learning around inquiry, experimentation, and discovery. Lotspeich places students in traditional groupings, in which they learn together both as whole classes and in small groups. The carefully sequenced program, designed and implemented by passionate, highly experienced classroom teachers and subject specialists, focuses on the acquisition of important academic, motor and social skills, and on learning to work as a team whether on a math problem or during a dramatic performance. We supplement our stimulating core curriculum with a wide range of special subjects, such as drama, art, music, foreign language, Spanish and PE/health, a reflection of the school’s commitment to educating the whole child and bringing the world into the classroom.