Overview Purpose History Core Values Future Donate
Overview Alumni Faculty & Staff Parents Board of Trustees Committees Local Support
Overview Multi-use Classroom Building Culinary Arts Center Gymnasium Athletic Fields & Playscape Area Gardens, Greenhouses & Livestock
Overview Early Childhood (ages 3 - 6) Middle Group (ages 6 - 11) Senior Learners (ages 12 - 14) After School
Overview Mixed Age Groups Individualized Learning Mentor/Apprenticeship Model Core Disciplines Authentic Endeavors Artists-In-Residence Daily Goals Assessment
Overview Diversity Mentorship Meaningful Work Mixed Age Groups Social Responsibility Sustainability Beyond Boundaries Hayground Camp
 

Campus

Our campus is a vital and integral environment for learning, exploration, and play.  Students and faculty make daily use of our extensive facilities:

  • 3,000 square foot multi-use classroom building

  • State-of-the-art Culinary Arts Center with professional kitchen, classrooms, dining room and meeting space

  • Regulation size gymnasium for indoor sports and performances

  • 5 acres of athletic fields

  • 2-acre playscape with sandbox, playground, and discovery path

  • 3 organic gardens, 2 greenhouses, and a heritage-breed chicken coop

 

 
 

Muli-use Classroom Building

Just inside the front doors of this 3,000 square foot multi-use classroom building is the community room. This large “Gathering” space is the heart of the school, connecting all of the main classrooms and outdoor spaces. It’s where we gather in large groups for community meetings, small groups or side-groups as well as watch and participate in performance. Our communal center is filled with art, musical instruments, games, books, tables, chairs, and natural light.

 
 
 

Culinary Arts Center

In 2004, the Hayground community joined hands to build Jeff’s Kitchen, a state-of-the-art culinary classroom and dining area that was the long-held dream of founding parent and local restaurateur Jeff Salaway. Today, our Culinary Arts Program is a complete embodiment of the Hayground experience: an authentic endeavor that demands daily collaboration and enables full integration of academic, social, and professional skills.

 
 
 
 

Gymnasium

Our regulation-sized indoor gymnasium is used year-round for sports and performance, and serves as an optimal facility for continuing Hayground’s active physical schedule during the colder months. Basketball, dodgeball, gymnastics, and volleyball are some of the sports we play. The space is also used for performing arts throughout the year.

 
 
 

Athletic Fields & Playscape Area

Surrounded by farmland, the majority of Hayground’s campus consists of vast green spaces for play and activities. We have athletic fields for soccer, baseball, and other sports. We also have a 2-acre playscape with sandbox, playground, and discovery paths. Physical activity and natural space are at the core of our ethos…having abundant areas for fun is both intentional and necessary.

 
 
 

Gardens, Greenhouses & Livestock

In 1996, when Hayground's founders purchased a 13-acre potato farm for the site of their new school, one of their first commitments was to restore the soil's natural health and create a small-scale model of sustainable agriculture for the community.  Now, more than twenty years later, Hayground's campus hosts three organic gardens, two greenhouses, and a heritage-breed chicken coop. 

As part of Hayground’s seed-to-table curriculum, students dig into the school’s organic gardens, greenhouses, and heritage-breed chicken coop to explore sustainable agriculture and the complex art of growing food. Best of all, our campus has become a living laboratory for one of our planet's most vital resources: soil.