The Starting Gate

The Starting Gate is Stratton Mountain School’s community magazine, highlighting news and updates from SMS, celebrating the achievements and journeys of our alumni, and recognizing the annual giving of our supporters. 

Our alumni are artists, entrepreneurs, physicians, professors, business leaders, writers, professional athletes, public servants, coaches, and scientists—bound together by the shared foundation of the SMS experience. Through stories of leadership, creativity, service, and athletic excellence, the magazine showcases how SMS graduates carry the values and drive they honed on the mountain into every corner of the world.

As you explore the issues below, we hope you're inspired by these stories of transformation, leadership, and excellence that define our community. Your continued support helps ensure that future generations can follow in these tracks and launch from Stratton Mountain School into lives of impact and purpose.