Deerfield Academy is one of New England's most prestigious boarding schools, founded in 1797 and set entirely within the historic town. The school's buildings blend with the period architecture of the village in an unusually harmonious way — there are no jarring modern campus insertions, just Federal-era brick buildings and well-kept lawns.
Visitors can walk through the campus grounds freely. The school occupies the northern part of The Street, and its buildings are intermixed with Historic Deerfield's museum houses. In term time the presence of students gives the otherwise museum-like street a dose of genuine everyday life.