The Hun School provides a diverse community that places a high value on a creative and rigorous traditional college preparatory curriculum in a structured environment; develops character, community and values; meets the students’ differing talents, interests and academic needs through a supportive staff in a variety of programs; and encourages students to widen their horizons, gain an appreciation for and an excitement about learning and achieve their full potential.

Any one of our current students or graduates could tell you different accounts of their experiences at The Hun School. Our history is made up of these tales resulting from learning and living in an environment where academic offerings, extracurricular activities, and athletics help realize the individual.

The foundation for The Hun School of Princeton was laid in 1914 by Dr. John Gale Hun, a professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. As a result of success working with and tutoring his own students, he decided to open the Princeton Math School, a school dedicated to preparing students for entrance into the nation’s top colleges. Soon renamed The Princeton Tutoring School, Dr. Hun expanded the School’s disciplines to include all areas of college-preparatory work. Distinguished for the quality of its teachers and the thorough preparation of its students, Dr. Hun's School reflected his own high standards and his abiding faith in young people.

Because the School soon outgrew its in-town quarters, Dr. Hun purchased property on Stockton Street in 1920. There, he constructed a new school complex with facilities for 150 boarding students. Renamed The Hun school of Princeton in 1925, the School prospered for the next twenty years under John Hun's supervision. In l925, the School acquired forty-five acres of the former Russell Estate on Edgerstoune Road. There in 1930, Dr. Hun constructed a Junior School Building. In 1942, the Upper School was moved from Stockton Street to the Edgerstoune campus. In 1943, the Hun School of Princeton was incorporated as a non-profit institution under the direction of a Board of Trustees.