Living our mission
Miss Porter’s School educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful, and ethical global citizens. We expect our graduates to shape a changing world.
Miss Porter’s School educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful, and ethical global citizens. We expect our graduates to shape a changing world.
At Porter’s, our mission powers everything we do. It drives us to challenge and support our students so that they build the knowledge, connections, and confidence they need to thrive and live lives of purpose.
Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.
Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.
Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.
Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.
Learning at Porter’s is hands-on, creative, curious, and bold. Our students explore across disciplines, investigate global ideas, and engage with different viewpoints. They tackle real-world challenges and graduate prepared to lead rich and purposeful lives.
Every member of our community has a story to tell about how Porter’s mission has shaped their life and the lives of others.
“Porter’s students and Ancients do actually shape a changing world, whatever that world may be to them. It could be in big or small ways, but it has an impact.”
“Porter’s shapes leaders for tomorrow and creates a place where girls thrive and find their voice and their agency. That’s powerful.”
“We want you as a woman to be bold, to use your voice, to find your confidence, and lead with integrity.”
“Traveling with Porter’s gave me the courage to see myself as a global citizen, not just a student.”
“The mission shows up in small ways every day — like the confidence to ask harder questions in math, or to share a poem in English.”
“Traveling with Porter’s gave me the courage to see myself as a global citizen, not just a student.”
“The mission shows up in small ways every day — like the confidence to ask harder questions in math, or to share a poem in English.”
“Traveling with Porter’s gave me the courage to see myself as a global citizen, not just a student.”
Our Vision
In keeping with our founder’s vision, Miss Porter’s School joins tradition with innovation to provide an exemplary education to young women. Generation after generation, our leadership is defined by our ability to articulate how young women think, how young women learn, and why gender matters.
Within our legacy lies our future.
Porter’s becomes part of you: just ask our graduates. They carry our mission into every chapter of their lives: living lives of purpose and leading the way in classrooms, boardrooms, labs, and beyond.
Learn more about our Ancients of Impact →
Sydni ‘18 is working to shape a better world. As a Columbia University student, she founded and directed The Amendment Project to engage youth in lobbying for reparative justice.
Sydni ‘18 is working to shape a better world. As a Columbia University student, she founded and directed The Amendment Project to engage youth in lobbying for reparative justice.
Sydni ‘18 is working to shape a better world. As a Columbia University student, she founded and directed The Amendment Project to engage youth in lobbying for reparative justice.
Sydni ‘18 is working to shape a better world. As a Columbia University student, she founded and directed The Amendment Project to engage youth in lobbying for reparative justice.
Sydni ‘18 is working to shape a better world. As a Columbia University student, she founded and directed The Amendment Project to engage youth in lobbying for reparative justice.
Learn more about the people and work that shape the Porter’s community:
Meet the team that champions our mission, guides our community, and prepares our students to learn, grow, and thrive in a changing world.
Explore how we foster a community rooted in true belonging — one where every member is seen, heard, and valued.
Learn about the institutional and student-driven efforts that are advancing our environmental stewardship and creating a more sustainable future for our community.
PORTER’S IS WHERE GIRLS LEARN TO THINK DEEPLY, SPEAK BOLDLY, AND LEAD WITH PURPOSE.
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