Berkshire School is a co-ed college preparatory boarding school offering a rigorous academic course of study. Pioneering programs - such as Advanced Math/Science Research, Advanced Humanities Research, and Sustainability and Resource Management - coexist with advanced sections and AP offerings in all disciplines. With a range of artistic and athletic offerings, state-of-the-art academic spaces, a 117,000-square-foot athletic facility, new music and theater centers, an 8-acre solar field set to provide up to 40% of the School's energy needs, and national recognition for its efforts in environmental conservation, it is an extraordinary setting in which students are encouraged to learn, in the words of the school motto, "not just for school, but for life".