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Harley Fund

Supporting students in the current school year

The Harley Fund serves the greatest needs of the current school year and benefits today’s students immediately. If you can make only one gift, please make the Harley Fund your priority.

There are many ways to support the Harley Fund.

Join The Harley Circle.
The Harley Circle is a recognition society for Harley Fund donors who give $1,000 or more each year. Sustaining Members make a three-year commitment. In addition to being listed in our Report on Giving, members are invited to special events. To give online, please click HERE.

Make an annual gift.
Gifts of any size to the Harley Fund make a true impact on the life or our students and faculty each school year. Your gift supports the school in so many ways: updates to the classroom or outdoor learning space, aid to our athletics department, after school clubs, our healthy food program, faculty professional development, financial aid, and more. Make your gift today by going to harleyschool.org/giving/

For more information, please contact our Director of Development, Holly Beaston.

Your Dollars Go Further: Harley Fund Donations in Use

46 donors of $5,000$230,000 Harley’s healthy lunch program
32 donors of $2,500$80,000 Annual school computer and technology upgrades
35 donors of $1,000$35,000 Allows 35 faculty members to attend professional development workshops
90 donors of $500$45,000 Student field trips
200 donors of $350$70,000 Bus transportation for athletic events

100 donors of $200$20,000 Tuning Harley’s 10 pianos throughout the school year

88 donors of $100$8,800 Average financial aid for one Harley student this year
124 donors of $50$6,200 Equipment for Edible Education and Maker Space

Made possible by the Harley Fund: New Bus

Our students take advantage of opportunities for civic work, college visits, sporting teams, and other activities all around the Greater Rochester area. Thanks to your support of the Harley Fund, we were able to purchase our own bus to help them get where they need to go!

Made possible by the Harley Fund:
Nationally renowned researcher helped us improve student wellness

Support from donors to the Harley Fund allowed the school to bring researcher Dr. Suniya Luthar to school for a study focused on improving student health and well-being.  This work by Dr. Luthar was partly responsible for the school increasing its counseling staff.

 

The Harley School

1981 Clover Street
Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 442-1770

©2023 The Harley School

Our Upper School is filled with formal and informal opportunities for students to take on leadership roles. Whether following passions or learning new skills, student-driven opportunities take many shapes. 

  • Independent study: one trimester, full year, and multi-year projects have included automating our solar chimneys, coding handmade musical instruments, or developing a class on financial literacy for underserved high school students.
  • Serving on student council: 
  • STEM: Climate curriculum program, biomimicry program, NASA Hunch program

At Harley, our students learn how to evaluate social systems in order to identify complex problems in society through a lens of social justice. They take a hands-on approach to working for a fair, equitable society by researching, exploring and evaluating different perspectives, and offering solutions—both theoretical and practical.

Our faculty integrate social justice into our broader curriculum to assist students in gaining a foundational knowledge about what makes a democracy function. By gaining skills in ideating supportive pathways they become more exposed and experienced to how communities can undergo healing and restorative actions.

Students may create independent studies with supervising teachers throughout their Upper School experience or, during Grade 12, they can design Capstone projects—intensive collaborations with Harley faculty and off-campus mentors—involving rigorous academic study and culminating in public presentations. They are empowered to create their own curriculum, set goals, and work on time management skills in order to accomplish their objectives.

Independent Studies run the gamut from The Psychology of Sports to Furniture Design to The Neuroimaging of Alzheimer’s Disease. Capstones, meanwhile, are as diverse as the students who pursue them: Fictional Rochester, Autobiographical Art, Biomimicry Education, Organic Fuel, and Rochester Refugees. 

Indicative of Upper School curiosity and creativity, pursuits such as these distinguish our graduates in college. Through deep dives of this sort, Harley students master more than speaking, writing, and computing: they learn to communicate, advocate, collaborate, organize, listen, and empathize. 

About

Academics

Key Programming

Enrollment

Letter from the Head of School

Letter from the Editor

Features

Central Work that Matters: DEI

Harley Black Alumni Network

Climate Crisis Curriculum

Citizen Scientists

Joy Moss: Storytelling Roots

In Every Issue

Class Notes

Diane Donniger Award

By the Numbers

From the Archives

What’s (Who’s) New at Harley

Divisional Highlights

Alumni Profile: Vandebroek

Alumni Profiles: Keller

HAC Athletics

2021 Lives of Great Purpose Awards

1000 Words

Commencement 2022

Reunion 2022

In Memoriam

Retirements and Fond Farewells

Letter from the Head of School

Letter from the Editor

Features

Central Work that Matters

Affinity Group Forms

Climate Crisis Curriculum

Citizen Scientists

Joy Moss: Storytelling Roots

In Every Issue

Class Notes

Diane Donniger Award

By the Numbers

From the Archives

What’s (Who’s) New at Harley

Divisional Highlights

Alumni Profile: Vandebroek

Alumni Profiles: Keller

HAC Athletics

2021 Lives of Great Purpose Awards

1000 Words

Commencement 2022

Reunion 2022

In Memoriam

Retirements and Fond Farewells