Integrating meaningful community service with education and reflection enriches the learning experience, prepares our students to be responsible citizens and fosters an ethic of service.

Tower Hill provides regular community outreach opportunities and supports student-driven service projects such as food collections, community clean-ups, book drives and small fundraisers. We have ongoing partnerships with the following organizations:

• Ministry of Caring
• West End Neighborhood House
• Lutheran Community Services
• DNREC (Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Delaware)

We offer a variety of extracurricular opportunities for students to participate in or create their own service projects. Our school-wide service efforts support food insecurity in Wilmington. Service Learning begins in preschool with projects such as holding a bake sale that benefits sea turtle conservation. Middle Schoolers participate in a week of service, do environmental cleanup and participate in the DisABILITIES Awareness Program. Upper School students have the opportunity to serve on the community service board. Tenth graders spend their Winterim days experiencing what it means to do service in the community to inspire them to volunteer on their own.

A Tower Hill tradition is the Hiller Harvest food drive that supports Lutheran Community Services. In the 2022-2023 school year, the Tower Hill community had a school-wide half-day of service for MLK Day. Some of the projects included: making 50 casseroles and 200 brown bagged lunches for Emmanuel Dining Room and Sunday Breakfast Mission, creating 100 no-sew fleece blankets for children in foster care, and making 100 dog toys for animal shelters. As we navigate creating a balance between academic rigor, wellness and student agency, the school looks to maximize the expertise of its community members to bring community connection and student agency.

Read "The Effects of Good Action" by Katherine Niu ’24