Thetford Academy’s community needs a Commons. A flexible, welcoming space that elevates health and wellbeing, showcases student achievement, and brings our community together.
Thetford Academy envisions a new campus hub that engages and welcomes our whole community— our students and faculty, our families, our alumni, neighbors and friends.
Today, we envision a new campus hub that builds on our strengths and better fulfills our obligation to nourish the hearts, minds, and bodies of our students.
In The Commons, students can connect before athletic practices and games. Faculty can meet to collaborate. The broader community can host and gather for events. And, yes, for the first time, our students will be able to gather for meals in a spacious dining hall served by a kitchen equipped to provide fresh, nutritious food.
Dear TA Families,We jumped into February embracing lots of cool challenges and opportunities! I want to thank students for taking risks inside and outside the classroom as they push their learning, hone their skills, experience new places, connect and share with others, and represent their school. And I want to......
06 February, 2026
Last Saturday at 5:30 a.m. twenty of team 4886’s roboteurs and their intrepid parents departed Thetford Academy for the 2+ hour trip to frigid Conway, NH. All seven of TA’s robots had already qualified for “States,” but there were some freshly-refurbished machines that needed to see a day of hard knocks to......
03 February, 2026
Students in Karyn Neubauer’s fall Painting class recently learned that their artwork for the Memory Project, a nonprofit that aims to “create a kinder world through art,” was received by Armenian students. The organization’s founder, Ben Schumaker, included a video of the deliveries with a message. “Most of the children......
02 February, 2026
What a day! Six schools and almost 40 students competed at the January 31st tournament in Lebanon, delightfully dubbed the New England Middle School Open. This tournament was designed to increase enthusiasm for debate among our younger students across Vermont and New Hampshire. Seventh graders Coral Riegler, Emelyn Leitao, Zachary......
02 February, 2026
January Reflections & IntentionsAs January draws to a close, it’s a good time to pause and reflect on intentions we might have set for the new year and check whether we are on the path toward achieving them. Our Getting to Y team engaged their peers in doing just that......
30 January, 2026
Guest post from our partners at Riverbend Career and Technical Center, first published in the RBCTC January Newsletter Hands-On Experience Paves the Way for Student Success Aylhea LaBadie, a senior from Thetford Academy and a student in River Bend Career and Technical Center’s Heavy Equipment program, is gaining valuable real-world......
29 January, 2026