Norwood in Brief: Founded: 1952 Enrollment: 528 Families: 375 Faculty and Staff: 120 Student-Teacher Ratio: 7 to 1 Operating Expenses: $13,425,000 Financial Aid Budget: $1,325,000 Students Receiving Financial Aid: 88 Annual Giving: $675,000 Campus: 40 acres
Steuart Building – Lower School classrooms, tutoring rooms, math and reading classroom, Development Office, Admission Office, Lower School Office.
Amanda Murray Arts Center – art rooms, music room and stage, piano practice rooms, and office of learning specialist.
Ewing Building – 20,000 volume library, Lower School classrooms, science labs, computer lab, math and reading rooms, Head of School’s Office.
Marsh Building – Lower School classrooms, math and reading classrooms, multi-purpose gymnasium.
Middle School Building – Middle School classrooms, 10,000 volume library, art rooms, music rooms, foreign language classroom, Middle School Office, kitchen, cafeteria, network closet, multimedia center, science labs.
Since its founding in 1952 under the direction of Frances Brandis Marsh, Norwood has grown and evolved from a co-educational primary school of forty students connected to an Episcopal parish church into its present configuration as an independent elementary and middle school of over 500 students on a large, suburban campus. Through years of growth and subsequent changes in leadership, the School has held fast to Frances Marsh’s original vision of a “happy place of learning for children … filled with art and music … where each child would feel supported and valued.” In short, Norwood is a school which seeks to achieve a healthy equilibrium between matters of the mind and matters of the heart, and which embraces both the qualities of constancy and renewal.
Norwood School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Association of Independent Maryland Schools. In addition, the School holds memberships in the National Association of Independent Schools, the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, the Black Student Fund, the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education, the Educational Records Bureau, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and the Parents Council of Washington.
Photo Tour of the Norwood Campus
Student Community Agreement
Norwood School strongly believes that how you lead your life matters. To this end, Norwood requires that its students conduct themselves honorably and lawfully at all times and act with respect, kindness, and honesty.
The following Standards of Student Conduct, Honor, and Response are discussed at school with all students. It is expected that all parents will read the Community Agreement and discuss it with their children. Middle school parents must submit an electronic return slip, acknowledging their children’s intention to abide by these standards and the parents’ intention to support them. Time will be spent in school discussing the standards with middle school students.
Standards of Student Conduct
Proper conduct is expected of all students while engaged in school activities, both on and off campus, while online or communicating electronically, and during school-sponsored events. Inappropriate behavior not directly related to school activities will also be considered a violation of this policy if it negatively impacts the school community.
Students are expected to treat each other with dignity, to be polite and courteous to peers and adults alike, to care for all property and grounds, and to help preserve a clean, well-maintained, and safe school environment. Students are expected to interact in a manner which contributes to a welcoming and comfortable environment for everyone. Students are expected to abide by all applicable laws and school policies.
At all times, students are expected to make decisions based on the spirit of the Standards of Student Conduct and Honor and to avoid conduct detrimental to the community’s or any individual’s sense of security and trust.
Standards of Honor
Our school community depends on the presumption of honorable behavior through trust and mutual respect. Students are expected to act with integrity and uphold the standards of the community, especially regarding issues such as cheating, plagiarizing, and using technology. At all times honesty and responsibility to the community are expected to guide student behavior. Because students are trusted to adhere to the spirit of this Community Agreement, they are expected to act in ways that would be widely interpreted as appropriate behavior.
Standards of Response
When a student violates the Community Agreement there will be a response from the School. Repeated violations will result in increasingly severe consequences. Every effort is made to match any consequence to the action and to educate the student about how the behavior negatively impacts the school community. In cases beyond minor infractions, parents will be notified so that they can reinforce behavior that is in accordance with the School’s beliefs and policies. The tools available to educate the student about the infraction and to maintain a trusting community include, but are not limited to, the following consequences: verbal correction with explanation of the negative impact of the action, written notification to the parents, detention (in Middle School), student-behavior contract, parent conference, in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, expulsion, and legal proceedings.
