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Fourth graders perform their class play
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a community of inspiring,
bold, and remarkable
learners and leaders

Belmont Day is an all-gender, pre-kindergarten through eighth grade independent day school, where your child will be held to high standards in a supportive, nurturing environment. Through a hands-on, innovative curriculum integrated with the outdoors, students develop their voice and grow into confident communicators and leaders, well prepared for high school and life.

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Belmont Day Quick Facts

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students in our all-gender pre-kindergarten to eighth grade day school community

6:1

student-teacher ratio

10

miles from Boston in Belmont, Massachusetts

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acres of conservation land surround our beautiful campus

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core values are shared and practiced

40%

of students identify as students of color

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Grab Those Batons and Help Conduct the Future of Belmont Day

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 25, 2026

Gustavo Dudamel, the newly appointed music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic, is one of the world’s great conductors. He rose to fame leading the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in his native Venezuela, and he has since conducted around the world, including for Pope Benedict and on John Williams’s score for Star Wars: […]

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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

September 25, 2026

Gustavo Dudamel, the newly appointed music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic, is one of the world’s great conductors. He rose to fame leading the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in his native Venezuela, and he has since conducted…

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For Seventh Grade Science, It’s Water, Water Everywhere This Year

BDS September 25, 2026

This week, seventh grade science launched our year-long inquiry into water—a topic we’ll continue to explore throughout the year through the lenses of Earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics. We began with a deceptively simple question: How much water is actually available to us on Earth? Students participated in a hands-on investigation called Water, Water […]
Associate teacher at the white board reviewing hieroglyphs with fourth graders

Training Teachers Harnesses BDS Experience

Our associate teachers are graduate students who are knowledgeable and passionate about education. They come to Belmont Day to be mentored through a one-year residency by our master faculty. Through this collaboration with Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education, our faculty are shaping the next generation of teachers.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
Belmont Day School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
It does not discriminate based on race, color, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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