Community Life
Inclusion and Belonging
Every school day, more than 475 students travel to Winsor from across Greater Boston to create a neighborhood on Pilgrim Road. Our students bring their whole selves to school—including their diverse talents, family backgrounds, and racial, religious, and gender identities.
Because our teachers and staff welcome students to leave no part of who they are behind, students can be themselves. They find acceptance, pass it on to their neighbors, and a community in which everyone feels like they belong.
Cultivating Connections
Students thrive in a supportive environment. We work to make everyone in our community feel valued and accepted.
“I introduce culinary techniques and flavors to young minds at Winsor, turning the cafeteria into its own classroom and celebrating cultures and heritages that represent the community.”
Culinary Director
Winsor Builds Community
Weekly student-led assemblies bring the Lower School and Upper School together for celebrations of culture, explorations of pressing issues and current events, and showcases of theater and dance. Spirit-filled traditions like all-school assembly, Spirit Week, and the singing of “Lift Every Voice” at graduation connect Winsor’s past to the present and seal bonds of friendship and sisterhood for life.
Affinity groups build relationships among students who share a common experience. Student clubs of all kinds bring students together to explore shared interests, hobbies, and co-curricular pursuits.
Winsor is a learning hub in the heart of Boston, accessible by T and within reach of centers for the arts, community-based service organizations, and the internationally renowned medical and academic institutions headquartered in the Longwood neighborhood.
We want students to explore who they are, how to be more themselves, and how to relate to others. This kind of learning happens at Winsor because prioritize it through positions like the Bezan Chair of Community and Inclusion, a fully funded faculty position, works with students, teachers, and staff to weave issues of equity and social justice into community life. Doing this work makes Winsor a more welcoming and inclusive place for everyone to be.
Community News
2024 Annual Brooks Poetry Prize Competition
May 9, 2024—Nine students stepped on stage in the David E. and Stacey L. Goel Theater as the final round of the Brooks Poetry Prize Competition got underway. “The Brooks Poetry Prize competition encourages students to read poetry and to practice public speaking,” said English Department Head Courtney Jackson, “and it gives us all a…
In Rhapsodies over Advanced Rock On
May 2, 2024—Playing music spanning more than two decades, Advanced Rock On commanded the stage in the David E. and Stacey L. Goel theater during all-school assembly. A music elective, Advanced Rock On is designed for experienced instrumental and vocal musicians to hone their performance skills. Students spend the semester deepening their understanding of reading…
Viva La Vie Bohème! RENT: High School Edition
April 26–27, 2024—The Upper School spring musical RENT: High School Edition wowed audiences during back-to-back shows on Friday and Saturday night in the David E. and Stacey L. Goel Theater. Loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, RENT is set in the East Village of New York City in the early 1990s. A story…