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Marlowe Academy JK to Grade 12 · Est. 1927
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The campus, on foot

Eight stops, gate to commons, in the order a real tour walks them. It's a decent substitute for a visit in exactly one way: it will tell you whether you want the real one.

  1. A stone path crosses a wide lawn toward the arched doorway of a historic stone hall, framed by old trees

    Stop 1 of 8

    The Chapel Green gate

    Every Marlowe day starts here

    The wrought-iron gate on Chapel Green Lane has opened for students since 1927. A teacher stands here every morning at 8:00, the first of the day's several hundred hellos.

  2. Marlowe's red-brick main building and clock tower above the central green, with soccer goalposts on the lawn

    Stop 2 of 8

    The green

    Recess, Closing Circle, and 99 years of grass stains

    The central green holds morning recess, spring exhibitions, and the whole-school Closing Circle in June. The two oaks predate the school; the goalposts do not.

  3. Three Lower School students in aprons painting together in front of a wall covered in handprint art

    Stop 3 of 8

    Founders' Hall: Lower School

    The original 1927 schoolhouse, twice extended

    Junior kindergarten to Grade 5 live here: classroom libraries, a puppet theatre with a waiting list, and coat hooks at four heights. The reading nooks in the 1927 wing have window seats worth the tour on their own.

  4. World-languages teacher Tomás Herrera holding a small Colombian flag in Room 14

    Stop 4 of 8

    Room 14: World Languages

    Spanish and German, JK to Grade 12

    Señor-slash-Herr Herrera's room switches language at the door. The flags on the chalk rail mark the week's partner-classroom letters from Bogotá and Bremen.

  5. A teacher points up into the trees while a small group of children in rain boots looks on along a woodland trail

    Stop 5 of 8

    The ravine: Outdoor Classroom

    Four acres of creek, woodland, and weather

    Down the cedar steps behind Founders' Hall: the creek where Grade 2 samples water, the fire circle, and the trailhead where the Grade 8 Ridge Hike begins. Used every week in all four seasons. Mud is a school supply here.

  6. Students' hands build a small robot from colourful construction pieces on a workbench

    Stop 6 of 8

    Design & Fabrication Lab

    The wall of documented failures

    Laser cutter, printers, sewing machines, soldering benches, and the lab's famous wall where broken prototypes hang with tags explaining what went wrong. Open from Grade 6, and bookable by any student with a plan.

  7. Students dressed in black rehearse as a choir, singing with feeling beside the piano

    Stop 7 of 8

    Barton Hall theatre

    Home of the Mainstage and Founder's Day

    A 340-seat hall with a student-run booth. Two productions a year, the jazz band's Founder's Day set, and Thesis Night each May: the school's whole year, on one stage.

  8. An Upper School student reads at a library table surrounded by shelves of books

    Stop 8 of 8

    The Upper School commons

    Seminar rooms, library armchairs, and the Thesis wall

    Grades 9 to 12 work around one shared commons: seminar tables, the college-counselling office with its door usually open, and the wall listing every Senior Thesis title since 1974.

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Stop 5 in particular is better with boots on. Tours run year-round, including summer.

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