Hathaway Brown School

Hathaway Brown School is an independent day school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, serving girls from pre-school through twelfth grade. Enrollment lands between 700 and 1,000 students, which makes HB one of the larger independent schools in the Cleveland area. The school's motto, Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus — "we learn not for school but for life" — shapes a pre-K through 12 academic arc with no religious affiliation.

Teaching at Hathaway Brown is distinctive in a few concrete ways. Faculty work inside one of the few all-girls day schools in Ohio with a full K–12 span, so students can be known by name across many years. The language program is unusually deep for a day school, covering Mandarin, French, Latin, and Spanish. HB is also known for its signature Institute programs, which give teachers room to build applied, research-based electives alongside the core curriculum.

The school's finances are healthy. Net assets reached about $146 million in 2023 on revenue near $35 million, which supports steady salaries, standard independent school benefits, and program investment. Shaker Heights offers housing costs well below coastal school markets, so a faculty salary tends to go further here than in Boston or the Bay Area.

Hiring at Hathaway Brown School spans classroom faculty across divisions, world languages, STEM, humanities, arts, athletics, and Institute roles, plus admission, advancement, and operations staff. Most openings post ahead of the academic year, though searches run year-round.