Harpeth Hall School

Harpeth Hall School is an independent college preparatory day school for girls in grades 5 through 12, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Enrollment sits between 700 and 1,000 students, making it one of the larger all-girls day schools in the South. Families come from across the greater Nashville area.

The academic program covers sciences, humanities, and the arts. Language offerings include Mandarin, French, Latin, and Spanish. Class sizes are small, and faculty are hired as subject specialists who also advise, coach, or lead clubs. Because this is a day school, teachers are not on dorm duty at night or on weekends — a real lifestyle difference from boarding peers.

Teaching culture at Harpeth Hall reflects decades of work on how girls learn best. Faculty are expected to push students to speak first in discussion, run the lab bench, and defend their work in studio critique. New hires often say the shift takes a term to get used to, then becomes the reason they stay.

The finances are strong. Harpeth Hall School reported about $32.6 million in revenue and $129 million in net assets in 2023, with fundraising up more than 40 percent year over year. For faculty, that means steady department budgets, funded professional development, and real benefits packages. Tennessee has no state income tax, which lifts take-home pay compared with many peer markets.

Open roles at Harpeth Hall span classroom faculty, coaches, counselors, and staff in admissions and advancement, plus occasional senior leadership searches.