5th Grade Class Leads Community Clothing Drive for Families in Need

This fall, 5th Graders at Ethical Culture are engaging in a service learning project with the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, helping to run a fall and winter clothing drive for […]

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Ethical Values and Service Learning: Fieldston Upper Students Lead the Charge with The Sher Organization

Recently featured on ABC 7 News, a group of Fieldston Upper students are demonstrating the power of ethical values through real-world action. Led by seniors Ishaan A. ’25 and Dhruv […]

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Year in Review: Feel Good Stories from ECFS 2023–2024

As the 2023–2024 academic year comes to a close at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, we’re reflecting on 10 of our favorite feel good stories that we shared this year. […]

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Fieldston Summer Internship Program Opens Doors for Students and Alumni

Each summer, many Fieldston Upper students from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School make their way to offices, camps, and businesses across New York City and beyond to take part in […]

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It’s a Wrap for the First-Ever Fall City Semester

For the first time ever, City Semester was available to Fieldston Upper 11th Graders this fall. Traditionally, ECFS’s own in-house semester away program has only been available during the spring […]

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Fieldston Upper and RLP Virtually Connect and Converse

The computer screen fills with dozens of smiling faces as students from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and the Riverside Language Program (RLP) come together for a virtual gathering. Each […]

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ECFS Honors Latinx Heritage Month

From mid-September to mid-October, we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month. The month aims to pay tribute to the culture and contributions of Latinx people, and ECFS honors the month across its […]

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ECFS Lives Its Mission in the Time of COVID-19

Early in the pandemic, Jon Alschuler, Fieldston Middle Assistant Principal for Student Life, and Arhm Choi Wild, Fieldston Middle and Fieldston Upper Diversity Coordinator, came up with the idea of […]

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ECFS Hosts First Ever Youth Virtual Climate Summit

When news broke that the ECFS campuses would not reopen for the remainder of the 2019–2020 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students, families, and faculty and staff were […]

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Letters to the Editor: Championing Women in Science

Students in Katherine Kartheiser’s 9th Grade Biology class were assigned a simple comparison of two sets of data: One was the page in their textbook covering endosymbiotic theory (how structures […]

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