Welcome to Laurel School's Butler Campus!

Campus Facilities

8 tennis courts • 2 softball diamonds • 1/4 mile all-weather track and field • 5 regulation playing fields for soccer, lacrosse and field hockey • 16,000-square-foot Fitness and Wellness Center with state-of-the-art equipment • 3 miles of walking trails • 1 Learning Pavilion with a fireplace and pizza oven • Magic Tree House based on the books by Mary Pope Osborne • 5 state-of-the-art yurts for outdoor education • Reid and North Lodges—2 all-season facilities equipped with indoor-outdoor fireplaces • 3,000-square-foot majestic Conway Pavilion • 15-element Project Adventure Course (8-low, 7-high) • Community gardens including a high tunnel • AND the future home of the Ruhlman Family Center, coming summer 2025!

Outdoor Prekindergarten

Laurel’s Outdoor Prekindergarten was the first of its kind in Northeast Ohio and allows significant outdoor hands-on learning for four- and five-year-old students that combines a play-based curriculum, nature immersion, current early childhood research, and personalized learning opportunities. This outdoor curriculum empowers students to become engaged and confident while learning in the forest. There is no bad weather, just bad gear!

Grades 3-5

Here at Butler, learning happens outdoors, and all year long Laurel’s Third-Fifth Graders dive into an innovative curriculum that invites them to grapple with concepts from multiple perspectives. These students based at Butler develop intellectual strengths, academic skills, and resilience as they deepen their engagement with the environment through inquiry-based studies of the Campus. Studying in yurts, in gardens and in the forest while traversing the campus using our bicycle fleet, are a few of the reasons why this experience for 8-11-year-old girls is unmatched by any other in Northeast Ohio.

Environmental Justice Semester

The Environmental Justice Semester (EJS) is a semester-long, academic program open to Tenth and Eleventh Grade girls from any public, private, parochial, or charter school in Northeast Ohio. This learner-centered semester has its homebase in the Fairmount House of the campus—a great place for students to access the terrestrial, aquatic, and agricultural ecosystems of the campus. These student changemakers devise solutions for the environmental and social challenges facing urban Cleveland.

Athletics

Go Gators! Laurel athletes work with incredible coaches and trainers, and compete against top opponents. Our fields are unparalleled and training happens in state-of-the-art facilities here at Butler Campus. It’s no wonder that we boast an impressive record of multiple, successive OHSAA State Tournament appearances!

Every Laurel girl’s education is enhanced

Whether a student is based here at Butler or at our Lyman Campus in Shaker Heights, every Laurel girl’s education is enhanced by activities and learning on this campus. All divisions tackle Butler’s Project Adventure Course, Middle and Upper School athletes compete on the fields and courts and train in our fitness and wellness center, the Early Childhood and Primary School children spend a few days each month as well as immersed in weeklong excursions in the natural world the Butler Campus offers.

Welcome to Butler!