Lawrenceville Student Handbook 2025-26

This K-12 student handbook details the Principal Expectations for conduct, academic policies, and disciplinary responses at The Lawrenceville School for the 2025-26 academic year.

Student Handbook 2025-26 Through House and Harkness, Lawrenceville challenges a diverse community of promising young people to lead lives of learning, integrity, and high purpose. Our mission is to inspire the best in each to seek the best for all. Effective August 2025 1 The Lawrenceville School | Student Handbook 2025–26 The Principal Expectations of a Lawrentian 1. A Lawrenceville student must respect the rights, privacy, and property of others. The Lawrenceville School expects its students to protect and promote the dignity of all community members. Our community does not tolerate bullying, hazing, intimidation, harassment, sexual misconduct, theft of or damage to property, or other types of disrespectful behavior. 2. A Lawrenceville student must be honest. The Lawrenceville School expects its students not to lie, cheat, plagiarize, or to engage in any other types of dishonest or deceitful behavior either in-person or online. 3. A Lawrenceville student must remain substance-free. The Lawrenceville School expects its students not to use, possess, share, distribute, or to facilitate the use, possession, sharing, or distribution of drugs (including the misuse of prescription drugs), alcohol, vaporizers, nicotine agents, paraphernalia, as well as substances that are generally recognized as dangerous, even though they may not be illegal. (These are referred to as “prohibited substances.”) The School also expects students or their families not to arrange or host a gathering at which prohibited substances are used. 4. A Lawrenceville student must protect the health and safety of the School community. The Lawrenceville School expects students to promptly report and seek help where there is a concern for the health or wellbeing of a student or the community. The School also expects students to consider the impact that their actions can have on the physical and mental health and safety of other community members and to refrain from conduct that puts others at risk. Such conduct includes but is not limited to harassment, as well as tampering with fire safety equipment, leaving fire doors or entry doors to School buildings open, not following safety practices when using labs or design tools, smoking, and using fire in any School building in an area not specifically designated for that purpose. Unauthorized weapons or dangerous combustibles or explosives are prohibited on campus. 5. A Lawrenceville student must abide by the School’s rules regarding permissions and signing out. The Lawrenceville School expects students not to leave the House after check in without proper authorization, not to leave campus without required permission, and not to be present in a School building or student room without authorization. It also expects students not to facilitate the violation of these rules by others. 6. A Lawrenceville student must abide by the School’s motor vehicle rules. Boarders may not keep or operate a motor vehicle at Lawrenceville or in its environs, or ride in a car without proper authorization; day students may not drive another student without proper authorization. 7. A Lawrenceville student must meet community expectations and the high standard of citizenship expected of a Lawrentian. The Lawrenceville School expects its students to demonstrate a high standard of citizenship, adhering to all principal expectations including attendance of all classes, meetings, and school commitments. Students are expected to be upstanders and not engage in actions such as retaliation or inappropriate use of social media, artificial intelligence, or other technologies. 8. A Lawrenceville student must abide by federal, state, and local laws as well as the School’s rules, regulations, and policies Enrollment at Lawrenceville constitutes a student’s and their family’s acceptance of these Principal Expectations as the guiding principles for proper conduct. The examples provided above are illustrative, not exhaustive. The School encourages students and families to read the Principal Expectations broadly. Violations of the Principal Expectations may subject a student to a range of responses from the school, including disciplinary action (up to and including dismissal from the school). The School, in its sole discretion, may define and take action to address misconduct by students or their family as it believes is in the best interest of the community. The Lawrenceville School (“Lawrenceville” or the “School”) Student Handbook (“Handbook”) is published and distributed to members of the Lawrenceville community for the purpose of providing information on aspects of student and campus life so that students may gain as much as possible from their experience at the School. Students, parents, faculty, administration, and staff should all read and be familiar with the contents of the Handbook, so that each member of the community knows and understands the expectations of students within our community. While policies in this Handbook will generally apply, the School may take actions that it determines to be in the best interests of the School, its faculty, and its students. This Handbook does not limit the authority of the School to alter, interpret. and implement its rules, policies, and procedures, before, during, and after the School year. This Handbook is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to create, nor does it create, a contract or part of a contract in any way, including, but not limited to, between Lawrenceville and any parent, guardian, or student affiliated with or attending the School. Lawrenceville, in its sole discretion, may add, revise, and/or delete School policies before, during, and after the school year. Table of Contents Principal Expectations. ...........................Inside front cover Change of Address/Phone Numbers................................ 9 Letter from the Assistant Head of School for Student Affairs. ............................................. 4 Room Safety.................................................................... 9 Campus Information....................................................... 5 Safety and Security.......................................................... 5 Public Safety Department. ........................................ 5 Emergency: 911........................................................ 5 Campus Boundaries.................................................. 5 Emergency Notification System................................ 5 Lightning Alerts. ....................................................... 5 Room Inspections................................................... 10 Gender Identity Affirming Policies. .......................... 10 Maintenance Requests. ................................................. 10 Student Mail.................................................................. 10 Day Students................................................................ 10 Office of Student Services. ............................................ 10 Evening Check-in & Check-out. ...................................... 10 Other Safety Considerations. .................................... 5 Evenings on Campus......................................................11 ID Cards............................................................. 5 Staying Overnight at School............................................11 Building Safety................................................... 5 Inclement Weather.........................................................11 Valuables. .......................................................... 5 Penalties. .......................................................................11 Bicycles/Scooters/Skateboards. ......................... 5 Absence from School. ....................................................11 Rooftops/Construction Areas............................. 5 Driving Rules & Regulation for Day Students. ..................12 After Dark. ................................................