Far Brook School
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Far Brook is located on seven and one-half acres in Short Hills, New Jersey, approximately 20 miles west of New York City. The inviting, semi-wooded campus encompasses playing fields, a marsh and brook, and a pony paddock. Red clapboard, light-filled buildings house classrooms which open directly to the outdoors, enabling the children to experience the natural world in all seasons and weather.

The school’s facilities include the Junior High building; the Lower School building, housing Nursery through Grade 2 as well as the woodshop and jewelry-making room; the Winifred S. Moore Hall (renovated and expanded during the spring and summer of 2003) for the daily Morning Meeting of the entire school community, as well as dance and drama classes and presentations, and containing a kitchen, a state-of-the-art theater facility, and boys' and girls' dressing rooms; a small barn; Moore Cottage, providing living quarters for the caretaker; and the gymnasium. In addition, four new buildings were funded through the school's first Capital Campaign, completed in 1996. Opened in 1990 were the Ruth and Max Segal Family Library; the Mary Margaret Wearn Wiener Middle School, a classroom building housing classrooms for Grades 3 - 6 on the upper level and the school's two computer laboratories and Middle School science laboratory on the lower level; and a new Administration building. The Laurie Arts Center, completed in 1992, houses an expanded arts facility, vocal and orchestral rehearsal rooms, and individual lesson studios. In 1993, a playground structure was designed by a faculty and trustee committee, funded by Far Brook families, and built by parents and faculty. In October 2002, the second technology lab for the whole school was opened on the lower level of the Middle School Classroom building. The new lab, which includes a Smartboard with LCD projector, three laser printers, two scanners and a CD burner, is equipped with 24 Pentium IV workstations, each with its own headset, microphone, and DVD player.

The Ruth and Max Segal Family Library