2%
NOTEWORTHY NUMBERS
204
total students enrolled in 2020-2021
146
Concord campus
29%
Tuition
58
State/Auxiliary Funds
Huntsburg campus REVENUE
Along with remote learning locations in
Mexico, Scotland and the United States
1%
Our Vision
Children will develop as whole human beings with a strong sense of self, community, and the natural world, reaching adulthood as leaders, models, and contributors to peace.
Thank You!
Our community’s pandemic response brought nearly
$600,000 in COVID Relief gifts in school year 2020-2021
directly from our generous families, friends and supporters to help offset our increased operating expenses. Your amazing support made all the difference!
HERSHEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL
Morning Care & After School Programming Fundraising/Annual Giving Other Operational Income
7%
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THE PURPOSEFUL FARM AT HERSHEY
10%
61% 5% 3% Direct Payroll Indirect Payroll & Benefits
7%
Program Operations
EXPENSES
Facilities/Utilities
10%
COVID Expenses (not payroll related) Administration Expenses
65% Copies of our audited financial statements are available upon request and our most recent 990 filed is available on Guidestar. This report is also available on our website.
EARLY COLLEGE COUNSELING PROVIDES PROPER PREPARATION AND PEACE OF MIND Hershey’s Adolescent Community participates in a highly individualized college guidance counseling program led by our expert College Counselor, Valerie Raines. Beginning in tenth grade, Valerie works closely with each individual student and family to identify colleges that are the best fit academically, programmatically, culturally, socially, and financially. This aspect of our Upper Schooler’s academic journey has become invaluable to Hershey students and their families as it allows them to make sound, well informed decisions regarding their college career and area of study. This highly specialized program has proven so invaluable that we will be extending it to all incoming freshman beginning in the fall of 2021.
Maria Montessori believed a farm school setting is an ideal condition for adolescents to learn the lessons required of this age. Incorporating a farm as a prepared environment provides adolescents daily opportunities to handle adult-like responsibilities by giving them real-life experience in social organization, solving the community’s challenges and addressing its fundamental needs— including those that are social, environmental, or physical in nature. Students also learn how to provide one’s food, maintain one’s shelter, how to participate in economic endeavors, and to interact with the natural world. The power of such an environment to engage and guide adolescents toward adult-level cultural understanding and practical experience is invaluable preparation that sets Hershey students apart from their peers.
Valerie Raines College Guidance Counselor 2020-2021 YEAR-IN-REVIEW
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