Stoneleigh-Burnham School
Address
574 Bernardston Road Greenfield , MA 01301 United States
Coordinates	42°36′52.56″N 72°35′08.88″W / 42.6146000°N 72.5858000°W / 42.6146000; -72.5858000
Information
School type	Independent, secondary, single-sex, boarding girls' school
Motto	Veritas Supra Omnia (Truth Above All)
Established	1869
Head of school	Sally L. Mixsell '69
Grades	7-12 and postgraduate
Enrollment	128
Average class size	10
Student to teacher ratio	6:1
Campus size	100 acres
Color(s)	blue and white
Mascot	Owl
Accreditation	NEASC
Yearbook	Images
Alumni	7,000
Website	http://www.sbschool.org

Stoneleigh-Burnham School (SBS) is an independent boarding and day school for girls in grades 7-12 and postgraduate. Founded in 1869, the school is a combination of 5 founding schools from New England, but resides today on a 100-acre campus in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States, located in the Pioneer Valley.
Stoneleigh-Burnham is affiliated with the National Coalition of Girls' Schools (NCGS), the National Association of Independent Schools, The Association of Boarding Schools and is accredited with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

The Stoneleigh-Burnham mission is as follows: Stoneleigh-Burnham School is an academic community that inspires girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect and intellectual curiosity. Each student is challenged to discover her best self and graduate with the confidence to think independently and act ethically, secure in the knowledge that her voice will be heard.

Girls that attend Stoneleigh-Burnham are riders, artists, intellectuals, athletes and much more. The Head of Stoneleigh-Burnham is the first ever alumna to act as Head of School, Sally Mixsell.

The school's motto is Veritas Supra Omnia (Truth Above All), and the school mascot is an Owl who wears the colors blue and white.

Stoneleigh-Burnham School is the result of the merger of five girls’ schools, dating back to 1869 with the Prospect Hill School of Greenfield, Massachusetts.

SBS alumnae total over 7,000 women from across the world, women in the fields of academia, government, science, finance, professional sports, and the arts.

The history of Stoneleigh-Burnham School as a timeline:

• 1869: Prospect Hill School founded in Greenfield, Massachusetts by Reverend John Farwell Moors.
• 1877: The Classical School for Girls founded in Northampton, Massachusetts by Bessie Talbot Capen and Mary A. Burnham. The founders are encouraged by then-President of Smith College, Laurenus Clarke Seelye, to provide young women with a better preparation for entrance into Smith College.
• 1885: The Classical School for Girls is renamed the Mary A. Burnham School, in honor of founder Burnham.
• 1909: The Elmhurst School is founded in Connersville, Indiana by Isabel Cressler and Caroline Sumner, also at the urging of Seelye.
• 1926: Elmhurst School relocates to a larger campus in Rye, New Hampshire and is renamed the Stoneleigh School for Girls.
• 1930: The Stoneleigh School for Girls merges with Prospect Hill School forming Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School on what is today the Stoneleigh-Burnham School campus.
• 1968: Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill merges with the Mary A. Burnham School to form Stoneleigh-Burnham School.

Stoneleigh-Burnham School is a small community with a wide array of academic offerings. The academic schedule works on trimesters in which class size ranges from 6-12 students, with a student to faculty ratio of 6:1. The school offers 11 advanced placement (AP) courses and has a college acceptance rate of 100%. Stoneleigh-Burnham graduates in the last five years have been accepted at colleges and universities such as: Brown University, Northwestern University, Rutgers, Hofstra, Tufts, Mount Holyoke, Smith College and Williams College.

Stoneleigh-Burnham School provides its students with several athletic opportunities. Fall offerings include soccer, volleyball, cross-country, dance and riding. Winter offerings include basketball, fitness, skiing, figure skating, dance and riding. In the spring, the school offers lacrosse, softball, tennis, and dance riding.

Stoneleigh-Burnham athletes play with motto: Win without boasting, lose without excuse!

The performing and fine arts are an large part of the Stoneleigh-Burnham experience. Stoneleigh-Burnham takes part in numerous performing arts presentations many times throughout the year, both on and off campus.

SBS art course offerings include Digital Photography; Desktop Publishing & Photoshop (working with the Adobe CS4 Creative Suite); Ceramics; Painting; Advanced Placement Art; Ballet; and Pointe.

SBS extracurricular activities include StuCo (the Student Council); the Literary Society; the Debate and Public Speaking Society; Admission's Blue Key Society; the Dance Performance Project; the Octet singing group; peer tutors; Riding Club; Students of Color (SOC); and the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA).

Stoneleigh-Burnham’s Debate and Public Speaking Society regularly competes with schools such as Deerfield Academy, Loomis-Chaffee, St. Paul’s, Roxbury Latin, and Phillips Exeter. Many students, including one in 2010 traveled to the World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championship.

• Official website
• Head of School official blog