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Mission Statement History of the School Faculty, Staff, & Administration Board of Trustees Location & Directions Volunteer Opportunities Employment Opportunities Facility Rentals Nantucket New School Building Rental Rates History of the School The Nantucket New School was the dream of six visionary families who felt that island children deserved a sound choice in education. Together with teacher Linda Zola, they founded Nantucket New School in 1985 in the basement of parents, Prentice and Patty Claflin. The original six students entered at the kindergarten/first grade level. The School grew quickly, and, as it did, the School added grade levels to accommodate the needs of the students. By 1988, the School had outgrown the Claflins’ basement, and it moved to The Old Spouter on Orange Street, where it remained until 1990. When enrollment reached twenty-five students, the School, with the generous assistance of its parents, arranged to purchase the School’s first campus at 45 Surfside Road. The School continued to flourish over the next eleven years, and in 2001, when a faculty and staff of seven served sixty students, the School’s first Head of School, James McDaniel, was appointed. That year, the School also purchased, with the cooperation of the Nantucket Land Bank, a two-acre parcel of land on Nobadeer Farm Road, and began construction of its current campus. In 2001, an anonymous benefactor donated a house to the School and had it moved to the Nobadeer Farm Road campus. With the help of a number of parents, the house, named, at the request of the donor, the George Fraker House after the man who had previously lived in it, was renovated. Fraker House, as it is affectionately known, is now the home of the Head of School and his family and also houses the School’s offices. The School moved into the Louise F. Walker building on the Nobadeer Farm Road campus in 2002, due in large measure to a generous matching grant by the Weezie Foundation, and enrollment grew to about one hundred students in grades pre-kindergarten through eight. Current Head of School, David Provost, was appointed in 2004 Today the School continues to thrive and to fulfill its original mission of providing an outstanding educational alternative for Nantucket families.