High School Reimagined
Explore, Design, Build, Govern
We are transforming high school into an expedition of discovery, purpose, and impact. All at a tuition everyone can afford.
Get a sense of Wonder, our 82 foot schooner and first campus. We sailed over 6,000 miles in 2024 as we implement our vision to reimagine high school.
High school is not working for many of us.
Disorienting “Busy Work”
High school students feel disconnected from a sense of meaning in their lives and their work. The CDC found that 40% of teens had “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.” There is a sense that high school is something you get through instead of a place where you work on important topics that matter. The connection between assignments and their impact is tenuous or non-existent.
Feeling Isolated
Half of teens do not feel a sense of belonging within their high school communities and only 1 in 4 students felt that the adults at their school cared “a lot” about their well-being and success. We are stranding teens when they are forming their sense of identity and insisting they fall in line instead of helping them craft a vision for themselves and the world they want to live in.
Future-Obsessed
High school feels like a conveyer belt inside an education factory: one-size fits all, do well on the tests, get your diploma…then what? The pressure to get accepted into the “right college” causes burnout and the fear of failure can be overwhelming. Instead of intentional, character-defining rites of passage, students walk across a stage and into adulthood.
Now imagine what high school could be.
Authentic Purpose
Imagine high school becoming four of the most fulfilling years of your life. Students wake up every morning with a sense of purpose. You leave with more than just a diploma—you can point to physical change in the world that you helped create. You have a portfolio of tangible work that you can put onto your resume or into a compelling college application.
Inspirational Community
Imagine learning alongside educators doing the most fulfilling work of their careers and bringing that inspiration to their student interactions everyday. Teamwork and leadership are intentionally cultivated as part of the curriculum during school, not just after school. Teens feel supported when they make mistakes, because safe opportunities to fail are essential in the process of doing great work.
Opportunity-Awakening
Imagine high school feeling like a runway designed for liftoff: graduates have the perspective and capacity to go in any direction. You have not just studied different industries inside a classroom, you have participated in them. Whether college, career, military, gap year, apprenticeship, or something else, you feel equipped to dig in and get started with the next chapter of your life.
The Planet School Creates Experiential Education with Social Impact.
The Planet School is at the beginning of an ambitious journey to revolutionize secondary education at scale from curriculum to business model. We will do this through a global network of campuses where students instigate change as they tackle planet-sized problems alongside visionary peers and passionate faculty.
We launched in 2022 with afterschool programming and acquired our first campus in 2024: an 82’ schooner named Wonder. Once we have created our first three campuses—ocean, city, and forest—we will launch a two-year high school. We estimate enrolling our first class of full-time students in 2026.
In order to truly welcome exceptional students from all backgrounds, we do not intend to charge tuition. We invite you to read more about our business model and how it works symbiotically with our curriculum.
We currently offer seasonal internship opportunities for students eager to help reimagine high school with us. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to learn about how you can join us.