The Putney School is an independent high school in Putney, Vermont. The school was founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton on the principles of the Progressive education movement and the teachings of its principal exponent, John Dewey. It is a co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school, with a day-student component. Putney is 12 miles (19 km) outside Brattleboro, Vermont, on a 500-acre hilltop campus with classrooms, dormitories, and a dairy farm where students are expected to work. It enrolls about 200 students. Danny O'Brien is the head of school.
- Country
- United States
- Inception
- 1935
- Website
- http://www.putneyschool.org/
