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Middlebridge School

Middlebridge School is a college-preparatory boarding and day school for bright students who learn differently. A Place to Belong & Become.

A college preparatory coeducational boarding and day school for students ages 13-18 with learning differences. Highly individualized education promotes students' academic performance, emotional intelligence, and fosters a lifelong love of learning. Traditionally, the Middlebridge student presents with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or written expression, attentio

nal diagnoses such as ADD/ADHD, Executive Dysfunction, and/or school related anxiety. Middlebridge is a haven for learning, growing, and belonging. Our multifaceted, integrated, and holistic approach creates confident and capable students who embrace educational opportunities, community engagement, and leadership.

08/24/2026

Your Middlebridge Bucket List 🌊🏰

A new school year means a whole new list of things to dream about, try, and check off along the way.

☐ Make new friends
☐ Try out for the soccer team ⚽�
☐ Find a teacher who really gets you�
☐ Eat fish tacos at Monahan’s 🌮�
☐ Surf a wave at Narragansett Beach 🏄�
☐ Discover your favorite spot on campus�
☐ Try something you’ve never done before�
☐ Cheer ridiculously loudly at a home game�
☐ Find your people�
☐ Learn something that surprises you�
☐ Make Hazard Castle feel a little bit like home 🏰

Some of the best parts of a new school year are the ones you can plan for, and some are the ones you never saw coming. Here’s to a year of new friends, new adventures, big goals, small victories, and plenty of things worth checking off the list.

What’s on your Middlebridge bucket list this year? 💙

08/06/2026

History is more than what you study here; it's something you become part of. For more than two centuries, Hazard Castle has weathered seasons, welcomed new beginnings, and watched generations write their own stories.

Soon, another group of Middlebridge students will walk through these doors, bringing their own dreams, friendships, challenges, and successes. Here's to another chapter in a story that's still being written!

💙 We can't wait to welcome you back.

07/29/2026

The MBS garden has us feeling philosophical. 🌱

Sometimes the seeds you plant take a while to grow. Sometimes you pour in hours of work before you see even the smallest signs of progress. Growth rarely happens overnight.

Right now, we're enjoying the fruits of our Environmental Science students' hard work! Fresh blueberries, tomatoes, pears, and gorgeous blooms are filling the garden. Patience and persistence have a way of paying off.

We'll happily enjoy some of the early harvest, but much of what's growing now will make its way into the MBS Kitchen this fall, where our students can enjoy the literal fruits of their labor. 💙🌿

07/17/2026

The castle halls are quieter. The fields are empty. The dining hall is missing its usual buzz.

But everywhere we look, we're reminded of the students who filled these spaces with laughter, questions, challenges, friendships, and growth this year.

Summer gives us a chance to catch our breath, reflect on all that was accomplished, and start imagining what's next.

We can't wait to welcome students back to campus this fall.

06/24/2026

Some days, it's hard to believe this view is part of our daily backdrop.

Summer on the Rhode Island coast is beautiful, but it's even better when it's shared with our students.

For now, we'll enjoy the sunshine and salt air and look forward to welcoming our community back to campus before we know it.

06/19/2026

There's something about a perfect summer afternoon-sunshine, green grass, and the smell of salt air off Narragansett Bay-that makes us miss the sounds of practice and the excitement of the season ahead.

While campus is a little quieter right now, we're already looking forward to welcoming our student-athletes back this fall and seeing what this next team can accomplish. New faces, returning leaders, and fresh goals.

Until then, we'll be counting down the days. 🦉⚽️

06/16/2026

There are few causes closer to our hearts than literacy. This week, members of the Middlebridge faculty were proud to participate in Links for Literacy in support of Literacy Volunteers of Washington County.

Literacy is about access, opportunity, confidence, independence, and the ability to fully participate in the world around us. We are grateful for the work LVWC does throughout Washington County, providing free adult literacy services, English language instruction, citizenship preparation, financial literacy education, workforce literacy support, and GED preparation. Every day, LVWC helps open doors for adult learners seeking new opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.

Thank you to Literacy Volunteers of Washington County, the event organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and participants who made this year's Links for Literacy a success. We are honored to support this important work.

📚 Literacy changes lives.�💙 Learning is lifelong.�🌎 Stronger communities begin with opportunity.

06/12/2026

Learning happens in a million different moments over the years.

It happens in classroom discussions and presentations. In papers, projects, and quizzes. In moments of challenge, revision, and breakthrough. It happens when students begin to trust their own voices and recognize what they’re capable of achieving.

Some of the most meaningful learning also happens because of the people surrounding our students: peers who are working hard to grow, asking thoughtful questions, taking risks, and imagining bigger futures for themselves.

Growth is rarely just academic here. It’s personal, relational, and deeply human. And one of the greatest gifts of our community is watching students inspire one another to keep changing, striving, and succeeding.

06/10/2026

Missing this already. 🏐🦉

With campus quiet for the summer, we’ve been thinking a lot about the energy, intensity, and heart this year’s championship volleyball team brought to Middlebridge. From big serves and bigger blocks, this team made every match feel electric.

More than the wins, we’re proud of the way these athletes showed up for one another with the kind of teamwork that reflects what Middlebridge is all about.

The gym may be empty for now, but we’re already counting down the days until the sounds of sneakers, cheers, and volleyballs echo through campus again. 💙🧡

06/08/2026

Looking back, looking forward. 💙

Today, we’re celebrating 18 years of Middlebridge School and reflecting on the incredible journey that brought us here.

At this year’s graduation ceremony, founding Board Chair Mark Pelson shared the story of Middlebridge’s beginnings with our graduates: the vision, the risks, the long hours, the moments of uncertainty, and yes, even the little moments of luck that helped shape this community into what it is today.

It was a powerful reminder for our graduates that meaningful things are rarely built overnight. They are built through commitment, resilience, relationships, and people willing to believe in something before the outcome is guaranteed.

Eighteen years later, we are so proud of the community that has grown from those early dreams and so excited for what comes next.

Once an Owl, always an Owl. 🦉

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Narragansett, RI

Telephone

+14017880800

Website

http://www.middlebridgeschool.org/

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