Hillside Student Community provides an educational environment centered on recognizing, appreciating, and sharing our gifts with one another. This is the true basis for education: it teaches us what it means to be human. We believe that the development of a creative person, intellectually and artistically, is the highest goal for the school. Youth need a central set of creative and ethical values to give them the strength to be unique. Hillside integrates these values within a challenging college preparatory program. We believe everyone has a gift. Our school seeks to discern and help develop this gift to be shared with the world.