Experience

Nothing Less Than Transformational

It’s never boring at boarding school! Living, dining, working, and hanging out with other students is a big part of the The Oxbow School experience. Students come to Oxbow from all over and they are always an interesting and diverse group. Each student’s experience as part of this learning community expands their talents and interests, and is a big step towards getting ready for college. From pizza parties, to walking across the Golden Gate Bridge, to trips to the beach, social life is exciting and fun at Oxbow and our students often become friends for life.

Campus

Activities

If at any point Oxbow doubts the good it does, I just want to reassure you all that you’re changing the lives of young artists every semester.

— Colin Davis, Fall 2009

Our daughter graduated summa cum laude from NYU with a double major in Studio Art and Art History. She is now working for Calvin Klein. She is contemplating getting a law degree and pursuing a career repatriating art objects. She still keeps in touch with several of her Oxbow classmates and they have regular reunions in Manhattan... I would say that Oxbow was the best semester that any of my four children spent in their cumulative 16 years of high school. Our daughter was the right kid, and for the right kid you do a wonderful job. You changed her life. Thank you.

— John Powley, Parent

At Oxbow, I got to try inquiry-based learning for the first time. This allowed me to control the amount of rigor and the depth of research in my topic, as well as picking a topic that I found most interesting. From going through this new process of learning, I feel excited to go back to the rigor of my sending school to apply the inquiry-based perspective to my classes.

— Meave Cunningham, Fall, 2015

A School Like No Other

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