Diversity
Promoting a Diverse Community
MHS has earned a reputation for promoting a diverse community in southern Marin educational circles. This reputation is a key element of our appeal and the result of the school's commitment to equip our students to be successful in the community that surrounds them. MHS is, and will remain, committed to enhancing diversity among our students, parents, faculty and administration. This objective is embedded in the cornerstones of our institution and includes promoting and celebrating diversity, nurturing respect and curiosity towards the experiences of others, encouraging leadership in diversity and drawing strength for the MHS community and society as a whole from our commitment to the practice of diversity in its many dimensions.
It begins at the top with a Board of Trustee-mandated Diversity Committee that comprises trustees, faculty and parent members. Its purpose is to promote an educational environment within a diverse community, and nurture our students' respect and awareness of each other and the world community. It pervades the classrooms via a curriculum with a multicultural view designed to help our students understand and appreciate both our differences and similarities as human beings. It is recognized on an individual level by families who volunteer to share their culture and backgrounds with MHS students.
Diversity at MHS
MHS includes culture, religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, socio-economics status, and age in its definition of diversity. Currently, 25% of MHS students are children of color, and 20% percent of our faculty and administrators are ethnically/racially diverse. MHS uses the National Association of Independent School (NAIS) definition of people of color. Note: NAIS defines ethnic diversity in these terms: Asian/Asian American/Pacific Islander, Bi-Racial/Multiracial, Black/African American, Chicano/Hispanic/Latino, East Indian, Middle Eastern, Native American Indian/Alaska Native.
