Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, known locally as BB&N, is a coeducational day school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It enrolls more than 1,000 students from preschool through grade 12. The school is nonsectarian and runs three campuses, one per division, within a short drive of each other.

The academic program is broad for a day school. The language department offers Arabic, Mandarin, French, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. Faculty work alongside specialists in arts, sciences, humanities, and athletics. Most teachers also advise, coach, or lead clubs, so the job extends past the classroom without requiring dorm duty.

BB&N's finances are steady. Net assets topped $173 million in 2023 on about $64 million in revenue, and fundraising rose nearly 80 percent year over year. For faculty, that tends to mean reliable pay, funded professional development, and solid health and retirement benefits. As a day school, BB&N does not offer housing, but salaries are set to the greater Boston market.

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School posts teaching jobs across all three divisions each year. Typical roles include lower and upper school classroom teachers, learning specialists, world language faculty, athletic coaches, and staff in admissions, advancement, and operations. Most faculty searches run from late winter into spring.

Cambridge adds real value for candidates. You get urban access, a dense network of peer independent schools, and close proximity to Harvard and MIT — useful for graduate coursework, collaboration, and spouse employment. For teachers who want a day school job in Massachusetts without a long commute, BB&N is worth a close look.