Campus

The school sits within a wooded 35-acre hilltop campus, a half mile east of the village of Conway. Trails traverse the native woodlands, around bedrock outcrops and vernal pools.

The single passive solar building, purchased and renovated by the Conway School in 2002–2003, is heated by a combination of wood and supplemental oil burner. Students share the responsibility of keeping the four wood stoves going during the winter months.

Two large sunny studio spaces, reception area, classroom with stunning east view, library, and study lounge with a Rumford woodstove fireplace are fully accessible; faculty and administrative offices are upstairs. There is also a kitchen available for preparing and heating lunches and snacks, and meals are shared weekly.

The school’s library is a collection of over 3,000 volumes, broadly focused on land conservation, ecological restoration, landscape history, urban planning, graphic and technical skills, natural sciences, and regenerative design; in addition, the school subscribes to more than fifty professional journals.

The facilities are comfortable, and the rural surroundings – rolling woodlands, productive farm fields, rocky streams – are a welcome balance to the intensive fast pace of student life at the school.