These are just a few epic sports rivalries that have carried on throughout history. The Powder Keg, a tradition between the Tilton School Rams and the New Hampton School Huskies, is legendary in its own right. 

The Mastery Approach is a customized learning process that reflects the very best in curriculum design, asking students to learn Essential Skills, explore all aspects of their community, and make choices about their own learning. 

The Essential Skill of creation uncovers possibility. Creation is about generating solutions to address needs and opportunities—through empathy, analysis, ideation, and iteration. 

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners and freelance professionals have endured an overwhelming impact. Ben Didsbury ‘96, a Boston-based sound engineer, has experienced this first hand. Over the past eight months, Ben is one of millions of Americans who have had to shift and adapt their work. 

On Saturday, October 10, the Tilton community came together for the school’s 175th convocation. The event was live streamed from the chapel, where seniors and postgraduates watched the ceremony along with speaking faculty and 2019-2020 prize winners.

This Saturday, Tilton fall athletic teams will compete against Kimball Union Academy in our first interscholastic sport contests since this past winter.

Students learn best when they choose opportunities in their academic, co-curricular, and personal lives to hone the skills that matter.  By encouraging growth in five essential skills, and by emphasizing these skills in all areas of school life, the Tilton Mastery Approach invites students to become the authors of their own education.

As part of Tilton's personalized, student driven approach to learning Grade Level Programming (GLP) bring teams of teachers and students together to solve problems, think deeply, and work together to navigate their world with character and vision. Each grade level culminates with a significant performance moment in which students demonstrate in authentic ways the skills and knowledge that they have mastered during the course of the year