Urban Intensive
The Buxton Urban Intensive (also known as the All School Trip) is a unique, student-driven journey to a city of specific interest to the school.
During the weeks prior to the trip, all students and faculty are involved in preparations and appointment-setting in the host city. Students help book hotel rooms, busses and restaurants; plan activities, make connections and research local transportation. We wholly depend on and trust our students to execute the wide range of administrative and managerial tasks necessary to pull off a trip of this magnitude.
While on the trip, students intersperse visits to places of interest with community service, including performances of the ‘All School Play.’ Students are broken into different groups that each focus on a specific topic, such as making a documentary film of post-Katrina housing in New Orleans or studying the genesis of inner-city murals in Philadelphia.

The week following our trip, students present their findings to each other to ensure the experience is as well-rounded as possible. We all reflect on what we’ve seen and learned, and take those lessons with us in the months and years to come.
Past All School Trips have seen Buxton in locations as diverse as Cuba, Detroit, Nicaragua, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Chicago and El Paso.
Areas of study have included urban planning, artisanship and cultural identity, boxing culture, the U.S. / Mexican border, homelessness and crime.