Since the School’s earliest days, service has played a central role in campus life and helped generations of students gain new skills and broader moral and social perspectives. Today, although not required, students regularly participate in community service activies. Some community service opportunities include:

• Junior Special Olympics: An annual campus event for very young special athletes
• Midnight Run: Food and clothing distribution to New York City’s homeless residents
• Springhurst Elementary School: Tutoring and reading
• Days of Wonder Childcare Center: Helping with toddlers and young children
• B.O.C.E.S.: Working with autistic adolescents
• Children’s Village: Tutoring young students who live in a group home
• Jonestown, Mississippi Project: Community development projects over spring break
• “Be a Buddy” Program: Escorting a senior citizen to dinner in the School’s dining hall and then to a student dramatic production
• Andrus Retirement Home: Providing companionship to the elderly
• Touring Talent: Sharing performance talents with the elderly
• Habitat for Humanity: Building and renovating homes for needy families
• Class Projects: Past projects have included AIDS Awareness, AmeriCares Homefront, Habitat for Humanity, Make a Wish Foundation, Police Athletic League, Help the Children, Sloane-Kettering’s Hopes and Heroes Foundation, UNICEF, Inner City Scholarship Fund, Jonestown, Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and the United Farmworkers.