Catlin Gabel School supports inspired learning, leading to responsible action through dedicated teaching, caring relationships, a challenging curriculum, and community service. We value each person's effort, imagination, and positive contributions to the community. We celebrate being inclusive and the partnership between family and school.

Catlin Gabel is Portland's nationally recognized progressive independent day school where teachers build transforming relationships with each student, honoring each child's innate capacities, encouraging exploration, welcoming questions, and always presenting new intellectual and creative challenges to our young scientists, storytellers, artists, and athletes. This combination of rich content and catalytic method forms bold learners who become insightful questioners, responsible thinkers, and inspired action-takers for life. Catlin Gabel immerses students from preschool through 12th grade in a powerful sequence of humanities, global cultures, interwoven mathematics and sciences, liberating creative expression, well-balanced physical education, and ecological awareness. Catlin Gabel is independently governed by a board of trustees and is not supported by tax or church monies. Financing is solely through tuition and contributions.

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