Cell Phone Policy

If you provide your cell phone number to the Academy, it will be added to Deerfield’s TXT emergency notification system. Students are permitted to carry cell phones, provided they limit calling, texting, and app use to the following locations:

• dormitories
• the Greer Store
• the benches in front of the Main School Building (for pick-up/drop-off only)
• the Deerfield Student Lounge (formerly the Day Student Lounge)

A cell phone may be carried everywhere on campus, but no calls may be taken, nor messages sent, until the student is in a discreet location or unless the emergency notification siren is heard.

Additionally, it is expected that all students carry their cell phones with them when travelling beyond Main Street of Old Deerfield. Students are asked to provide cell phone numbers on off-campus sign-outs.

Inappropriate use of a cell phone results in a two-day confiscation. Repeated infractions result in longer confiscations.